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Reducing the Working Week

by Hayder Ahmed (Leeds, UK)

The length of the working week does not reflect modern lifestyle needs. It should be substantially reduced to give people more leisure time and time with their families. How far do you agree with this statement? Day by day, the life is becoming more complex and very difficult and people work for long time in every day. It is agreed that the number of working day in a weak should be reduced to give workers more free time with their families. Analysing both difficulty and complexity of life nowadays as well as people work hard for long time will show this. Firstly, today, the life is complex and people spend a long time working very hard without a rest time. For instance, people work from the beginning of morning to the end of evening very hard. When they back to their home, they might be tired and stressful. Therefore, people can not find a free time to talk and discuss with their families and spend enjoyable time with them. Thus, this makes it clear why people need for more free time every week. Secondly, as people work hardly for a long time during a working day, they might be stress and their health could be not good. For example, when workers do their job, they will be standing all the time and sometime doing hard without a rest time. Thus, their body could be very tired and in a bad condition and this routine continues every day. From this, it becomes quiet evident that why decreasing the number of working day is important for people health. In summary, people are working very hard for long time. Therefore, their health condition could be bad and they do not spend more time with their families. Thus, it is clear why the idea of increasing the number of working day can not be supported. After analysing this subject, it is predicted that the drawbacks of working a long time without rest more than benefits. (295 words) ***** I'd appreciate some feedback for my essay on work and careers.

Working Part-time while at High School

Some high (secondary) school students work part-time while some do not, instead just focusing on their studies. What are the advantages and disadvantages of part-time jobs for high school students? Many high school students take up jobs in their free time. Some parents discourage their teenagers from working while studying. Both these cases have good and bad points. The students who take up part-time jobs become responsible. A job brings them income by which they get spending power. For example, a teen who works can use his money to buy his own text-books, pay for his lunch at the canteen, and also purchase personal things for himself. This reduces the burden on their parents especially in low-income families. These high school kids learn to spend wisely and hence tend to practice the art of saving for a future need. There are also drawbacks of getting themselves employment. They can get distracted from their studies. This can happen because a student may want to put in more hours of work in order to earn more cash. As a result, he will spend more time working and less time focusing on his educational side. Another downside is that with money power in his hands, he could easily fall prey to bad habits like gambling, drugs and smoking. This can lead to destruction of his academics and ultimately destroy his future career. Different homes are different when it comes to their financial state. Hence, low income groups might prefer if their children make a small earning to support themselves. However, high society people may not be in favor that their offspring gets employed as they feel it is below their status and , besides they can fund their teens.

Not Paying Taxes Essay

Some people believe that they should be able to keep all the money they earn, and should not have to pay tax to the state. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Every citizen have to pay a amount of their income. Countries implement changeable income taxes that generally depends on people`s rich rate. You will be seen end of the this Essay, how we are returning paid taxes by government. We use money every moment of our life for buying necessary things such an food, drinks and other costs to survive our life. And this provided product to us is controlling by government. There are massive official that they are working to supply our needs behind of this process. Those officials earn money from our taxes. On the other hand, governments have very large of responsibilities on own citizens such a security, relationship with other countries that is for giving right when they left their country, service that is for every sector to survive their life. To sup up, we have to pay taxes for this a lot of wheel can work. It is obligated rule for all citizens. Likely there are strict rules that someone reduce to pay income taxes , government do punish by fine or imprisonment .

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IELTS Essay on Employment

Posted by David S. Wills | Aug 6, 2020 | Model Essays | 0

There are many IELTS writing topics but one of the common ones is employment . This means anything relating to the idea of working. (Of course, it could also be the opposite: unemployment .) In any case, today I will explain how to write an IELTS essay on employment.

We are going to look at two examples of IELTS writing task 2 questions about employment and then I will show you my two sample answers.

IELTS Writing Questions about Employment

The topic of employment could arise almost anywhere in the IELTS exam but it is quite common in task 2 of the writing test. In fact, the scope for what sort of question you could be asked is immense! You could be asked about employment and:

• Environment
• and much more

In short, you cannot really prepare for this by guessing the questions or having any expectation of a particular topic. Just know that you might have to write an essay about employment and that you will need to read it carefully.

IELTS Essay #1: Self-Employment vs Traditional Employment

First of all, let’s look at an IELTS writing question about self-employment.

Nowadays many people choose to be self-employed, rather than to work for a company or organization. Why might this be the case? What could be the disadvantages of being self-employed?

This is a two-part question , which means you should aim to answer both questions in the body of your essay. In a sense, this makes it much easier to understand the question and structure your answer.

However, let’s make sure that we understand it perfectly.

Question analysis

Premise: In the modern era, many people work for themselves. This is different from the past, when they worked for companies.

We have to write about two things:

• Why this has happened.
• What are the disadvantages.

In a sense, this is a rare instance where the two-part question and the advantages-and-disadvantages question come together! You can see how #1 is sort of asking for the advantages, and #2 specifically asks for disadvantages.

How interesting!

Common Problems

I have often seen my writing correction students make the mistake of confusing freelancing, self-employment, and working from home. There can obviously be some overlap between these but there are also important distinctions:

To answer this question, I would take a pretty simple, four-paragraph structure for my approach. It would look like this:

Sample Band 9 Answer

It is quite common nowadays for people to be self-employed, rather than working for a company or organization. This essay will look into the reasons for that change, and then discuss some of the disadvantages of being self-employed.

In the information era, it is quite possible for people to work at home on their computer. The internet has opened up all sorts of possibilities in terms of making money, and so people may work as freelancers or start their own company. It has never been easier to do this because in the past working for yourself required renting an office or shop, whereas now you can simply set up a website or social media profile. People typically prefer this because it allows them a great deal of freedom. A person who prefers nights and loathes waking up early might choose to conduct their business at night, whereas someone who likes to travel might work from a laptop while visiting different places.

Of course, there are some disadvantages to being unemployed. This sort of employment lacks the security of a traditional job. In most countries, workers are protected by laws that guarantee them certain rights. However, with no employer and no workplace, these laws do not apply. Similarly, traditional jobs provide pension plans and health insurance, but when you work for yourself you have to provide these yourself, and they are not cheap. In fact, most self-employed people simply forego these things and take the risk as a part of their comparatively free life.

In conclusion, being self-employed allows people a far greater degree of freedom in their life, but there are several significant drawbacks that mean this sort of work is not suitable for everyone.

Note: This essay originally appeared here .

IELTS Essay #2: Job Satisfaction

Next, we will look at an IELTS essay on employment that deals specifically with the interesting issue of job satisfaction:

As most people spend a major part of their adult life at work, job satisfaction is an important element of individual wellbeing. What factors contribute to job satisfaction? How realistic is the expectation of job satisfaction for all workers?

This is another two-part question. What a coincidence!

Question Analysis

In order to understand this question, we can again look closely at its premise:

Premise: Job satisfaction is important for a person’s wellbeing.

You have to write about:

• The factors that make people satisfied with their work
• Whether or not it is realistic for everyone to achieve job satisfaction

You should aim to write about all of this without straying off topic.

A lot of people seem to misunderstand or overlook the second question, which asks whether it is realistic for everyone to have job satisfaction . This can be a difficult thing to discuss with any depth, but you need to address it as best you can.

Here is how I will plan my IELTS essay about job satisfaction:

Although some people think that a high salary is the most important part of a job, the truth is that job satisfaction is probably more important. This essay will look at some of the factors contributing to this, and then argue that it is a reasonable expectation to have some degree of job satisfaction.

Every person is different and so defining job satisfaction is not an easy task. However, it could be stated that in order to provide this to employees, employers must give them a good justification for doing their job. The reason for this is that having a sense of satisfaction with one’s job largely comes from feeling a sense of purpose. People who feel that their efforts are useless or unappreciated invariably feel no job satisfaction. In addition to this, it is important that a person is given some degree of responsibility and autonomy with their tasks. Having a supervisor monitoring every single action presents a lack of trust and creates an atmosphere of oppression. When these two factors are met, they can result in workers who feel satisfied with their positions.

It may seem unlikely that people can achieve this because ever since the industrial revolution, it has been normal for people to work long hours in order to make money to survive, with little thought given to making workers happy or comfortable. However, in the modern world there is no good reason why this cannot be a new target. Employers should strive to give their employees dignity in the workplace, instead of maximizing productivity. Whether this is likely or not depends on social expectations and workplace laws, but it is certainly possible if the effort were made.

In conclusion, job satisfaction occurs when people are given tasks that matter and then offered some degree of responsibility. This could be given to everyone with the right motivation, although it is also possible that it may not happen.

Ok folks, I hope that was helpful for you. Now you can go and write your own IELTS essay on employment. Remember that there are many possible questions and so you should not assume that these two will appear in your next test. Also note that the topic of employment could appear in task 1 as a line graph of employment rates or any other sort of visual representation of employment and unemployment.

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Employment Competition Essay Ideas

This IELTS essay question was reported in April 2015 and again in January 2023. So, for all essay questions on my site, regardless of the date of publication, please remember that essay questions and topics repeat in writing task 2. This topic is about the employment of older people and the problems this creates. Also note that this page is about ideas that you can use in your essay for this topic. It isn’t a model essay. You can’t write bullet points in your essays.

IELTS Essay Question

Nowadays, more and more younger people need to compete with older people for the same jobs. What problems does this cause? What would you suggest as a solution?

This essay question focuses on younger people. The instructions ask for problems and solution. Always note whether you are asked to give the causes or the problems.

IELTS Essay Ideas

Problems caused by young and old people competing for work

• young people will have to compete with older people who have more experience which might mean some young people fail to find work
• with greater competition for jobs comes more unemployment
• high unemployment in young people can cause unrest in society leading to problems such as crime
• without adequate financial means to support themselves, old people may be thrown into poverty
• with a growing world population of elderly people, this can be a huge financial crisis

Solutions for young people competing for work

• one effective solution could be to provide sufficient social benefits for older people to allow them to retire without loosing their standard of living
• by fixing a clear retirement age over which no one can be employed, it will ensure that the young do not need to compete against older people for work
• have a fixed quota of jobs set aside for people under a certain age and over a certain age to avoid so much competition
• another possible answer is to offer a job share between elderly and young people so that both groups can gain some form of employment
• alternatively, older people could be employed purely to pass on their knowledge and experience to the young rather than taking their positions at work

Alternative Essay Question

Nowadays, more and more older people compete with younger people for the same jobs. What are the reasons for this? What would you suggest as a solution?

This essay question focuses on older people. You must provide the causes (reasons) why older people compete and also solutions for this situation.

Essay Ideas

Reasons why old people compete with young people for work

• older people continue being fit for work for longer so wish to continue working
• some older people do not have enough money put aside for their pensions so must work
• some elderly people do not want such a long tedious retirement and wish to continue working
• as older people work for longer, there are less jobs available for the younger generation
• increased life expectancy raise the proportions of working elderly people

Solutions :

The solutions are the same as given above.

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In recent times, lots of younger candidates have to compete with older candidates for the same occupation. This problem leads to increased unemployment rate in younger adults and decreased new talented workers for the companies. There are a number of solutions for this problem.

Being forced to having a competition over a job offer with older people results in some causes. First off, this problem ends up with more unemployed younger people in the field. Younger people might feel tired due to such a competition and can give up job searches. Secondly, depending on younger adults’ increased unemployment, the number of older people working in companies might rise. Consequently, this brings about no gains to these industries in terms of new talents, skills, or insights.

However, there are some possible solutions to this problem, as well. Companies prevents younger people from not backing out job application by implementing some policies about giving at least some rooms for accepting younger applicants. By doing this, number of younger individuals competing with older individuals will decrease. Furthermore, older people generally are advantageous over younger people in terms of job experience. Therefore, If the government ensures internship opportunities for youths before they make transition to actual workplaces, they can get more experienced and have the chance to easily compete older applications.

To conclude, both the decision of companies to hire more younger people and the policy of the government to offer more internship opportunities to younger people could be solution to more unemployment rate of younger individuals and the traditional working style of companies. It is vital to open new room for younger applications as the future’s world will be shaped by this generation.

Thank you, Liz. Your materials were greatly helpful to prepare for my IELTS exam. Coincidently, I got this essay in my IELTS writing task 2 on 6th January, 2023. I was little bit surprised to see the same question during my exam.

That was a bit of good luck!! I hope you did well. I’ll edit the page above with a note that this question appeared this year – it’s always good for people to know. Good luck with your results!!

Thank you Liz for the wonderful lessons! I wrote this essay by using your ideas.

It is true that these days, many youths find challenging in competing with their vast experienced counterparts. This essay will discuss the biggest problem face by many educated inexperienced novices who fail to find jobs and then submit a viable solution for the older generation without losing their standard of living. The reason why most of the young people are unemployed is that many employers do not take a chance for hiring an unproven skilled worker. It is because the aged veterans are more expertise in the relevant field and do have many years of proven records. This can create pressure on the government to provide basic provisional support to the jobless youth to meet their end needs and also increasing the demand for rehabilitation. Another problem is that the rise in unemployment among young people may cause unrest in the society which may lead to crimes such as homicides, robbery, or thefts. There are effective solutions to alleviate these issues, firstly, by providing sufficient social benefits for older people to allow them to retire without losing their standard of living. Another way to tackle this is to fix the retirement age. By doing this, it will ensure the young people do not need to compete against older people. Another method is to have a fixed quota for under a certain age and over a certain age to avoid much competition. Alternatively, older people could be employed purely to pass on their knowledge and share their expertise rather than taking on their positions at work. In conclusion, certain jobs require high skills which a young person can gain with experience or getting trained by an older mentor if they are keen on passing their knowledge without creating conflicts.

Dear Liz, thank you for the amazing work!

Regarding these topics: What are the problems and give a solution

Is it ok the following text-structure?

Paragraph 1-Introduction Paragraph 2- First problem Paragraph 3 – Second Problem Paragraph 4 – Solution Pragraph 5 – Conclusion

Thank you in advance!

Sure, that’s one possible structure.

introduction BODY PARAGRAPH 01 (PROBLEMS) BODY PARA 2 ( SOLUTIONS) CONCLUTION

I wrote I beautiful essay by following your tips and I was highly commended.😍😍😍 Thank you so much.

Concerning the above essays, will I have to give my opinion?

Since the question says “What problem does this cause? what would you suggest as solutions”

God bless you as you reply🤗🤗🤗

It is not asking you to decide which is best. But it asking for you to present suggestions.

Dear Liz, Regarding this type of question, even if the question says” what would you suggest as a solution ? “, its a cause- solution essay and it doesnt require our opinion ?

The language of the question implies that I should give my opinion, like what would you personally suggest as a solution ? I am really confused . 🙁

The examiner is will not have a problem if you express ideas which have been asked for as your opinion. In this case, the instructions clearly ask for your view and your suggestions. The only time the examiner has a problem is when you fail to give your opinion in an opinion essay. When the only instructions are “agree? / agree disagree?” and you fail to give your view, then it is a serious matter.

It is very clear now . Thank you very much for answering. ❤❤❤

More and more people today spend a large amount of money to look younger. Why do you think people want to look you younger? Is this a positive or negative development?

I saw this posted in facebook page. This was the question writing task 2.

Hey Liz, There are few problem/solution essay questions which say “What do you think are the causes of these problems and what measures could be taken ?” Should I have to include “my opinion” in such cases or should I just approach this as a discussion essay type of question??

This is asking you to present the causes and solutions – you don’t need to give your opinion.

Thankyou so much 🙂

How would you end a topic with what has been written here I am having a hard time concluding my essay.

Regards, Juan

On the whole, your conclusion is a paraphrase of your thesis statement. It is usually a single sentence which summarises your stance or main points. If you need detailed training in writing task 2, think about getting one or more of my advanced lessons: http://subscriptions.viddler.com/IELTSLizStore

Liz .. Thank you for your outstanding support and aid for all of us

Kindly post new or more essays ideas for writing task 2 >> I had taken ielts exam more than once None of which had same or close ideas from your blog

if your private writing take 2 will include many new topics and ideas rather than writing techniques which I know, let me inform

my score stick at 6

I plan to write essay ideas in the future, some free on my blog and some to be purchased in book form. However, it will take time. Meanwhile, you can research topics through debate websites online and from model essays. Getting stuck at band 6 is not just about ideas, it’s also about technique and the avoidance of errors in your grammar and vocab.

Hi Liz I’m a student from Japan. I found your web site is very useful. I’m having trouble with brainstorming and now trying to do some research topics on debate websites, but researching on the internet takes a lot of time and I have(maybe most students) a tight schedule for passing IELTS test. Also I think for the students who are from asian might be not good at thinking critial. So if you write a book about essay ideas, it would be very very very helpful. Thanks a lot!

I am in the middle of writing the book right now. But it won’t be ready for a few months 🙂

Dear Liz. The question here is about aged people. but you gave examples about young people. I am a bit confused.

The question is about young versus old.

Quick question the $19 for writing task 2 its that just for 1 video? or its for all paid videos? your quick reply will be most appreciated.

It is for each one hour lecture.

Thanks for sharing all the great ideas, its really been a great help. I have to re appear for IELTS on May 21 as I could score only 6 in writing rest all three were 7 and overall 7 band. Please help me understand supporting ides in writing 2. Thanks

See my advanced lessons to learn how to develop ideas for writing task 2: http://subscriptions.viddler.com/IELTSLizStore

Hi Liz.!! Thank you for your invaluable lessons! Actually, I don’t miss your lessons. By the aid of your website I’m gathering a great amount of information! But here I have a question: doesn’t it influence on Writing exam results if we use “personal pronouns” in our writing task 2?! “I, We” for instance…!

https://ieltsliz.com/liz-notice-2015-2016/

Hello Liz For this essay do i need to discuss and expand 2 problems and 2 solutions or i can mention all of them.

I was able to improve my writing score from 6 to 7 with the help of your great lessons. But I got 6.5 in Reading and Speaking. I used to get 7 minimum in both of them.

Thanks a lot for your amazing lessons.

That’s really good news!! 🙂

Hi Liz, I just want to commend you for your substantial and very useful site. Thanks for helping us understand more the IELTS and how are the essays are supposed to be answered. I will be taking IELTS for the third time, I need to meet the band score 7 in all areas. My only problem is the writing, I got 6.5 from my last exam. Hopefully, in the third time I will be able to meet my expected rating. Thanks again, Liz!

Carla from the Philippines

Hi liz, I have a confusion regarding one of the ielts questions which came up recently. We can learn a lot more from teachers than other sources (internet) do you agree or disagree? So my question is that if I agree with the topic then I have to describe only the role of teachers in the whole essay or I have to write a separate paragraph regarding other sources as well? Looking forward to your reply

If you agree then you need to explain in your essay why you think that you learn more from teachers than from the internet. Don’t ignore the internet, it is part of your opinion that you think it is less useful. Liz

Hi Liz, Regarding my above question, still I cannot understand how’d I write the whole essay Kindly give me idea of how to describe that Internet is less useful? I am short of ideas for this essay. Thanks alot

The internet can’t give you feedback or correct your errors. Teachers are people who can give individual training which the internet can’t. Think more about the difference between people and computers. Liz

Thanks alot Liz:-)

Hi liz, I just want to share my recent exam topic writing task 2 last Oct 31, 2015. Just take a look if you think it is useful for your lesson.

Some people say economic growth helps to solve poverty and hunger. While other believes it only contributes to environmental damages and it must stop immediately.

Discuss both views, give examples and cite your opinion.

Thanks for sharing 🙂

Hi Wejo, can i ask please.. how did you paraphrase economy growth, or what u wrote exactly?

With regards to the writing test can i use the abbrevation of the word “and” like “&” during the letter (both formal & informal) & essay?

You can’t use informal writing in your essay or in formal letters. You can use it in informal letters. All the best Liz

Many many thanks for your selfless effort. Will you recommended me any free writing correction source.

Sorry I don’t any any such contacts. All the best Liz

Hi Liz, Hope you are okay. I have a question for you: can I rephrase the word ‘older people’ as veteran ?

No, definitely not. Check your dictionary for the meaning. Liz

Is IELTS writing task 1 and writing task 2 Held by same question in entire world in same day or it’s take separate question for different country . please inform me.

I do not know. Please contact IELTS. All the best Liz

hi liz thank you so much for your wonderful lessons it is really helpful for me

You’re welcome 🙂

I got this question on your site and I’m going to start writing about it: Companies spend millions each year on advertising online, in magazines and on billboards. These adverts can encouraged people to buy goods that they do not really need.

What are the positive and negative affects of consumerism?

>>>>on my first paragraph, should I just rephrase the question? >>>>How many positive and negative should I mention? since I need to discuss both >>>> in my conclusion, do I need to choose my stand between the two?

You can have as many effects as you want. It’s your choice. Plan the length of your paragraph and plan your ideas. The instructions don’t ask for a choice so you shouldn’t choose. See my adv disadv model essay to learn the essay structure and content. All the best Liz

Ms. Liz, I would like to clarify…consumerism is the belief of spending on goods. I am just confuse because in my essay I mentioned more on the positive effect of advertisement like people will be guided by some reviews they can read over the internet. and on the negative side, i mentioned that because of this advertisement people will be prompted to buy such product without thinking if it is necessary or not. Am I correct?

Your ideas are relevant. Liz

Hi, I used to take ielts for second time and still I ended up my writing by 5.5 score. Any possible idea that could I improve my writing test so I can get my desire score. I hope you can help me with my problem..

It is probably due to your level of English. Many students think that if they practice enough and learn tips, they will get a high score. But it isn’t so simple. Your English must be the right level for the band score you want. Spend time working on developing a deeper understanding of vocabulary and grammar. Once your English is stronger and more accurate, then review your IELTS skills. Liz

Thank you for your time, I’m sure this help me pass my writing test.:-)

Hello Liz Your website and ielts tips are simply amazing. I find it very much useful to prepare myself to do better in ielts. In fact I gain confidence too. I gotta doubt, can you please clarify? Is it fine to include points or to list out when I write essay task 2. Thank you With regards Dass

Can you give me an example of what you mean by “list out”. If you give me a clear example, I’ll let you know if it is advisable for IELTS. All the best Liz

Hi liz Thank you for your excellent work. Your website is very much useful. Can you please clarify my doubt? While writing essay task 2, is it fine to list the message as points by points (numbering one by one) instead of writing in a paragraph. Your response is very much appreciated. Thank you Regards Dass David.

No, definitely not. You are being marked on your ability to write complex sentences, not to write lists. Any lists you give will reduce your score a lot. The only list you could give is: “Many people believe that skilled professionals, such as doctors and nurses, should earn more money.” In this sentence there is a list of two examples. That is the only time you can do it. No list of examples should be more than three in length. All the best Liz

Hi Liz, Thank you for your quick response. I will prepare myself better for my Ielts ,with the help of your blog. With regards Dass.

Thank you Liz for all the tips. I haven’t tried taking the IELTS before. My upcoming exam is scheduled on the 3rd week of October.

I just have one question. If I put a lot of complex sentences in my writing task 2 with the use of clauses, will I have a big chance of scoring a higher band?

To get band score 7 and above, you need to produce predominantly complex sentences in your writing. However, the band score is also based on accuracy. So, if you produce lots of complex sentences but they are full of errors, you will get a lower score. Always aim for accuracy above anything else in writing. All the best Liz

Thank for sharing very usefull information about IELTS. So mu story is , I took IELTS exam in last month. my exam results are L 5.5,W.5.0, R 5.0 S 5.0.Now I am confusing and I don’t have idea what I have to do.So my IELTS target is 6 for all brands.If you can give some guide to improve my IELTS 5 to 6, It would be a great help.

You must improve your English. Your English contains too many mistakes to get band score 6. Develop your English to a higher level and then think about taking the IELTS test. Liz

While surfing the internet I found link of your website. I really appreciate all the resources you are providing for to prepare well for IELTS exam. Writing is major hindrance for me, I do many spelling mistakes as well. Please suggest some wise approach which I must follow. Currently my score is 3.5 to 4 out of 6.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks In advance 🙂

Regards Jas

All tips are given in the writing sections. For spelling practice see my IELTS Extra section and the Useful Website page. All the best Liz

Thanks for quick reply and pointers !

I’m from India -Punjab and I’m Very Impressive from your Lessons.But One thing I’m not able to understand .How i can strong my vocabulary .Any kind of books u May suggest to Me.

Buy the Vocabulary for IELTS books from Amazon or from your local educational store. Liz

Thank you so much for your sharing. I am going to take the IELTS exam next weekend. Fortunately i found ur useful website last month. It is just a short time but i’ve learnt so much. Now i am quite nervous about my writing and speaking skill. My aim is at least 6.5 score. Could you kindly give me some advise?

Read through the band score tips for your writing: https://ieltsliz.com/ielts-writing-task-1-band-scores/ and https://ieltsliz.com/ielts-writing-task-2-band-scores-5-to-8/ . For speaking, practice adding more to each answer, prepare vocabulary for topics and practice using the vocabulary. Also practice adding a range of grammar tenses – put past tense in your answer (I remember when …) or future forms (I really hope to…) or conditionals (If I could …, I would …). Good luck! Liz

Thank you so much Liz. Hope that i can share a good news with you next 2 weeks. 🙂

hi liz.. Thank you very much for your valuble web site.. I would like to know if you teach IELTS course ..and if yes in where? all the best

I have just started making my online course and there are some writing task 2 lessons available at present: http://subscriptions.viddler.com/IELTSLizStore I will add another lesson this month. Liz

Dear Liz ! thanx a lot for your sharing and posting useful informations regarding Ielts i have no appropriate words to appreciate your this great and noble efforts .this is your greatness and politeness that mostly poor and helpless people are availing your site and posts.plz continue your these effort for the benefit of the whole humanity and specially for poor and needy segment.

Thanks for your support. I’m glad my lessons are useful 🙂 Liz

Dear Liz, Thank you for this useful website. I really appreciate your effort to help students preparing IELTS, and i am taking advance of your meaningful work. Thank you so much. Kind regards, Tung

You’re very welcome 🙂

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• Phases of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Poetic Career
• Teacher’s Impact on Student’s Career Choice
• Business Career Plan for the Next 5 Years
• Personal SWOT Analysis to Determine the Career Development Strategy
• The Role of HRM in Career Management
• Mathematics Teacher’s Career Goal
• Decision-Making in Choosing a Career
• What Does a Career in Aviation Mean to You? Working in aviation means being able to adapt and stay focused, having the ability and will to learn, and finally, receiving the amount of reward it gives.
• Career Aspirations in Information Technology In the author’s opinion, being a qualified professional in the field of Information Technology is a challenging yet rewarding task.
• Becoming a Professional in Your Career I clearly understand who I aim to be in the future, so I am currently working as a dental assistant and studying for a dental hygienist to become a leading professional.
• Civil Engineer Career: Overview There are many ways to gain experience in the field of engineering, but the most popular ones are either in college or in the workplace.
• Career Plan in Nursing Nursing is a profession that requires extensive education, skills, special knowledge, and preparation to handle the vast and dynamic challenges.
• Nursing Career and Reasons to Choose It This essay will discuss several benefits of the nursing profession. One of the most obvious reasons for choosing to be a nurse is its influence on people’s lives.
• Development of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Poetic Career During the English period of Chaucer’s work, which began in the late 80s and lasted until the poet’s death, he created his most significant work – The Canterbury Tales.
• The Difference in Career of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven The paper states that unified by the patronage system and its consequences, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven have different career development scenarios.
• Hilton’s Career Development and Employee Motivation As one of the pioneers in the hospitality industry, Hilton aims to attract and retain the best employees to drive its services and customer excellence.
• My Career in Marketing Management The role of the marketing managers is to ensure that, there is a wider influence on customers’ expertise, proper instance schedule and defining.
• Pharmacy: A Career Pathway Pharmacy is vital to research and treatment of fatal diseases. Various researches are currently conducted with a view to introducing new drugs that are more efficient.
• Learning a New Language: Importance for Career Development Learning a new language has many advantages to a person’s career growth as it enhances their competitiveness in the local and international market.
• Master of Public Administration and the Career Master of Public Administration emphasizes leadership duties such as policy development and management of public finances and people management.
• Professional Competence for Future Career Goals I intend to study intensely in my field to be professionally competent. Maintaining high levels of professional competence would make me ready for any possible future changes.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Background and Career Michelangelo produced a magnificent statue from a rejected marble, making him an exemplary artist during the High Renaissance.
• Preceptorship in Nursing and Career Development A sense of inquiry is established and scholarship opportunities are created through mutual reflection on work challenges and lifelong learning in career development.
• Mohandas Gandhi’s Career Success and Failures During his time under British control, Gandhi positioned himself as a spokesperson for the common people. He was effective in his efforts to organize nonviolent resistance.
• Narrative Therapy and Career Counselling Narrative therapy enables people to develop their alternative life stories, which is particularly beneficial during career counseling.
• Amundson and Poehnell’s Career Development Model The objective of this reflective paper is to analyze and criticize Amundson and Poehnell’s Career Development Model.
• Ethical Approaches in Career Choice This paper discusses some of the ethical choices that a people should consider when deciding their occupations.
• Veronica Vargas: Career Counseling In this paper, a case study of Veronica Vargas will be analyzed with the help of such elements as genogram construction, worldview interpretation, theory application, and description of cultural issues.
• Gender Stereotypes in Families: Parental Influence on an Adolescent’s Career Choice Gender stereotypes are still persistent in societies that often seem to be egalitarian. These stereotypes are transmitted to younger generations that copy their parents’ role models.
• MBA Importance for Further Career MBA is an internationally recognized course. MBA offers a good package of updated knowledge and skills necessary and valid for a particular job.
• Career of Sound Engineer The sound engineer, after the voice record, turns to work and tries to make it so that the terrible sound, which was produced in the microphone, began to sing.
• The Importance of a Scientific Component in Choosing a Future Career The purpose of this paper is to discuss the erudite factor itself and in terms of building a CSI career, especially in Kuwait.
• Teaching Profession and Career Possibilities This report covers a thorough discussion of the teaching profession, the nature of work, work conditions, educational requirements, compensation, etc.
• Career Management in Business Every time a company wants to be successful it should be able to carry out career analysis, development and training, job design and implement it.
• How Can Managers Assist Employees With Their Career Development?
• Does Early-Career Underemployment Impact Future Career Success?
• Are Career Women Good for Marriage?
• What Decisions Are Critical for Success in a Career?
• How Can Computer Skills Help You in Your Career?
• Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low-Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path?
• Does Mentor Support Increase Women’s Career Advancement More Than Men’s?
• How Does Career Exploration Enhance People’s Ability to Further Themselves?
• Are There Any Class Size Effects on Early Career Earnings in West Germany?
• Does Sporting Activity Foster Career Advancement?
• How Does Career Identity Shapes the Meaning of Work for Referred Employees?
• Can Leadership Help Your Career?
• Why Are Good Communication Skills Vital for Career Success?
• Does Career Success Make People Happy?
• How Do Career Issues Affect an Individual’s Life?
• Can Women Have Children and a Career?
• How Does Company Policy Influence Employees’ Careers?
• Does Early Career Achievement Lead to Earlier Death?
• How Does the Development of Professional Knowledge and Abilities Affect Career Success?
• Does the Age Difference Between Partners Influence the Career Achievements of Women?
• How Does the First Job Matter for an Individual’s Career Life in Japan?
• What Are the Factors That Influence Career Choice?
• How Can Personal Identity and Being Inclusive Make or Break Your Career?
• What Are the Risks and Rewards of Different Career Paths?
• How Does Technology Affect Career Development?
• Psychology Branches and Future Career Perspectives The paper discusses biopsychology, cognitive neuropsychology, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, geropsychology, industrial-organizational psychology, and others.
• Homai Vyarawalla’s Photography Career Homai Vyarawalla had a unique talent for penetrating the fabric of time with her camera. One looks at the photos, and the long-gone days magically return to life.
• Career Opportunities in a Cruise Ship for Professionals in the Hospitality Sector Cruise ships operate in the tourism and travel sector, improving the recreation experience of passengers. The vessels allow professionals from different disciplines to work here.
• Analysis of Ron Powell’s Career and Performance This paper aims at analyzing the professional path of Ron Powell at Jones & Jones and examine his motivation strategy.
• Career as an NFL Player: Self-Analysis Besides, the career of an NFL player is a rather public position and this fact presupposes many public activities for players.
• Restaurant Management: A Career Perspective The job of a restaurant manage is one of the most varied careers in existence. It is the manager’s responsibility to offer service, food and drink to the public at a price they are willing to pay.
• Career-Related Service for College Dropouts and CCIS Model The CCIS (Curricular Career Information Service) is “an innovative program for delivering educational and vocational information” that was initiated in Florida in 1975.
• Career Opportunities for Business Students There are many academic and practice opportunities for students to strengthen their skills and gain the required knowledge, and joining a professional organization network is an option.
• Senior-Year Students Exploring Career Options Senior year students have to prepare for going to college, which usually involves leaving their friends and family, as well as for deciding on what they want to study.
• College Degree and Its Effects on Career This essay describes the causes and effects chain about events of earning a college degree and its importance for acquiring essential professional skills.
• Public Health Career Opportunities Public health may have a positive effect on students’ development and accomplishment of their career goals. Public health may be practiced via many applied practical experiences.
• Dance Education and Its Influence on Future Career The paper discusses the influence of dance or art education in general on people’s future careers that may be not related to the dance sphere.
• Clinical Career Ladders in Healthcare The main objective of the essay is to identify the relationship between successful Clinical Ladder Programs and nurses’ job satisfaction and the factors that contribute to it.
• The Need for Dual-Career Planning The number of families where both parents work but It is important to consider long-term goals regarding their lifestyle and distribution of housework between parents.
• Classroom Career: Occupational Interest Self-Assessment Personality assessments are useful tools that can help a person to distinguish some important personality traits relevant to career choice.
• Maintaining Work-Life Balance in a Nursing Career Taking into account stressful conditions that nurses have to encounter every day, they have to have enough time outside the work in order to recover, rest.
• Social Work Practice: Work Experience and Career Development The paper tackles having experience in Psychology, Sociology, Social Policy, and Safeguarding all vulnerable people and ensuring a better Social Work Practice.
• Nursing College Education and Career This paper outlines personal hopes, aspirations, and expectations when going to college with a bachelor’s degree in the nursing program.
• Career Growth in Management In assessing one’s managerial competences, the ability to manage people always makes for a very significant benchmark.
• Career Development at the Sidra Medicine Facility Sidra Medicine is a world-class health facility in Qatar providing medical and research services focused on women and children.
• Heidi Roizen’s Career, Work Principles and Habits Heidi Roizen managed to make use of her experience and networks at each of the following stages of her professional path.
• Choice of Career: Health Information Management The present-day world dictates conditions to specialists, and its primary orientation is technological development as well as its practical implementation within healthcare facilities.
• A Career in Genetics: Required Skills and Knowledge A few decades ago, genetics was mostly a science-related sphere of employment. People with a degree in genetics can have solid career prospects in medicine and even agriculture.
• Career Plan in Marketing Sphere The report provides a construct of marketing as applied to personal self-evaluative implications in this very job family.
• Public Diplomacy Profession, Its Significance, and Career To be successful in public diplomacy, one must be able to work with people, find understanding and common language with them, notwithstanding the size of the audience.
• Good Observation in Teacher’s Career and Policies Observation has a significant role in the improvement of teacher’s professional capabilities and for the development of appropriate policies.
• Cumulative Career Traumatic Stress: Law Enforcement CCTS is usually observed among officers and characterized by similar to post-traumatic stress disorder’s symptoms resulted in their constant exposure to traumatic events.
• Social Work Career: Personal Experiences A first person account is the narrative from a particular person’s point of view. Normally, the genre is used for reaching the reader who is likely to contemplate.
• Career in Healthcare Administration Healthcare management and administration is a vital field in healthcare that relates to the governance and oversight of medical facilities and healthcare staff.
• Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment in Career Counselling Career intervention refers to the activities aimed at evaluating and enhancing a person’s career development. It helps the person develop, and profit from various career decisions.
• Human Resources: Dual-Career Family Lifestyle In a dual-career family lifestyle, the sustainment of work-life balance becomes more difficult as employees try to stay committed both to their work and their family.
• Career: Interviewing the Professional Choosing a career after graduation is one of the most important life choices since this decision can affect the general perception of the world.
• Management Education Is the Key to Successful Career Management education is important because it supplies future managers and administrators with the knowledge and innovative ideas, practical examples and analytical skills.
• Musical Career: Personal Philosophy and Career Goals My love for music is due to the emotions that this genre of art gives. Melodies are able to awaken in the souls of people warmth, delight, worries, joy, and other strong feelings.
• The significance of soft skills in the workplace.
• The role of emotional intelligence in career success.
• The top in-demand careers in the future.
• Dos and don’ts for a successful job interview.
• What students should know when pursuing a career in creative industries.
• The importance of a strong online presence for professional development.
• Bridging the gap between education and employability.
• The importance of networking for career advancement.
• Practical strategies for writing resumes and cover letters.
• Benefits of internships and work experience for students.
• Policy Violation in a Learner’s Academic Career This paper gives a detailed analysis of some examples of policy violations and how they tend to undermine the true purpose of graduate schools.
• Differential Psychology as a Future Career Field As a psychology student, I am interested in pursuing any discipline that highlights individual differences and how such differences influence personality.
• Career Planning: Five Steps for Students to Take Career planning is an important step to take in any student’s life. This article should help you succeed in this choice and be satisfied with the results.
• Police Detective Career: Information and Issues The police detective career is very dynamic and demanding, especially the sections of criminal investigations such as homicide and theft.
• Gender Stereotypes’ Effects Career and Mental Health This paper discusses the stereotypes about women and shows how they limit the professional development of women and put them at risk of domestic violence and mental health issues.
• The Choice Milestone in Selecting a Career Path In today’s workplace, vocational decision-making, or the process of selecting a career path, has emerged as a common and challenging matter.
• Career Burnout in Nurses Serving Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease Career burnout in nurses, nannies, and caregivers serving patients with Alzheimer’s disease is an urgent problem.
• Career and Criminal Cases of Johnnie Cochran To Johnnie Cochran, practicing law became not only a career but also a call. He believed that many injustices were happening in the courts and he was determined to stop that.
• Physical Educators: Career Changes Physical educators experience various difficulties in their work; this research is aimed at investigating the various reasons why physical educators are opting for a career change.
• Why a Career in Business as an E-Business Consultant Is Best for Me? In this paper I will give an overview of my qualities and qualifications. I will look at the advantages and the shortcomings of the career and end with my conclusion.
• PSU: Women Managerial Career Development PSU organizational restructuring had various implications for women. It resulted to increase in the proportion of women in the PSU workforce from 9% to 12%.
• Vargas Family: Career Evaluation Case Study This paper aims to explore the case of the Vargas family, in which the intention of Veronica meets her father’s resistance and refusal to support her medical education.
• Personal Future Career Goal I want to work as a human resources manager in a medium-to-large-sized organization (one with 100 to 1000 employees).
• Loss and Grief Studies in Psychologist’s Career The knowledge received on the loss and grief theories allows me to analyse my experience in the context of them in order to have an in-depth understanding of the problem.
• Career Planning: Arguments To Avoid Planning a career is an important step that should not be overlooked. This article provides an overview of the mistakes that people make during career planning.
• Career Opportunity in the Accounting Industry Accounting information is one of the most essential factors and contributors to economic growth. The information provides knowledge that allows developing business ideas.
• Nursing Career Choice and Refusal The study focuses on the factors that contribute to people’s consideration of nursing as their career choice and further refusal to work in the specified area.
• Nursing Career: Achieving Goals and Objectives Nursing is not just an occupation, but rather a noble profession, which is exceptionally dynamic. Nurses can work in rehabilitation centres, schools, hospitals, etc.
• Career in Developmental and Personality Psychology Professionals who work in the area of developmental psychology concentrate on the provision of required assistance to people with developmental issues.
• Alan Wilson’s Career Choice to Change the World The case study analysis is focused on selecting the best career option for Alan Wilson. The purpose is to choose the option that is most beneficial to make a difference.
• College-to-Career Gap and Contributing Factors The paper explores the factors contributing to the college-to-career gap: the lack of job opportunities, the rise in the cost of college tuition, and the lack of career guidance.
• Child Psychology Among Career Paths This paper analyses the psychology career opportunities and states why child psychology is a useful course that will be in demand for years.
• Interview on Closing the Gap Between College and Career Whether we go to college to get an education or secure good pay alongside the diploma has deluded many students.
• Leveraging Soft Skills Into Career Opportunities Soft skills can be defined as critical skills for a successful career and interpersonal communication in a team.
• A Career Intervention Program for Self-Discovery and Future Success Choosing and pursuing a career has been an important and difficult consideration for the youth, both now and in the past.
• Career-Related Decision-Making and Gender Differences The paper focuses on career-related decision-making differences between men and women in general and the incidence of depression in the context of career advancement in particular.
• Closing the Gap Between Military Service and Civilian Career A gulf between Military Service and Civilian careers prevents veterans from successfully integrating into society after military service.
• Limitations in Career Growth in Guam There are limitations in career growth in Guam and they are mostly connected with the absence of necessary skills for an occupation outside the tourism sector.
• A Career in Economics: Understanding Human Behavior and Tackling Social Issues Economics, a diverse discipline that extends beyond fiscal matters and quantitative proficiency, presents a dynamic and gratifying career trajectory. Fundamentally, it delves into human conduct and the distribution of resources within societal frameworks. This complex field encompasses micro and macroeconomics, examining the forces that drive individual decision-making and the larger…
• Importance of Career Satisfaction Assesment Career satisfaction is a complex and subjective concept with as yet undefined boundaries and many interacting variables.
• Career Decision-Making in Business Administration In business administration, one of the main challenges is knowing where to apply the acquired knowledge and skills.
• Teacher Career: The Role of Self-Efficacy In addition to self-efficacy during teaching programs, one has ample time to read and research from several sources to have every detail at your fingertips.
• A Physician Career and Its Advantages This paper aims to define a career as a physician and all it entails and explain why the author chooses to pursue this profession.
• Career in Cinema: Advices and Fundamentals Similarly to all other industries, it takes hard work to be successful in cinema. It applies to all representatives of this business: from actors to producers.
• The Career of a Registered Nurse In order to successfully pursue the career of a registered nurse, one needs to possess medical knowledge and gain appropriate skills.
• Donald John Trump’s Biography and Career Donald John Trump is a globally renowned individual whose major spotlight was when he served as the 45th President of The United States of America.
• Choosing a Career in the Administration of Justice The careers open for students with a degree in the Administration of Justice provide a possibility for being hired for jobs in the US Department of Justice.
• The Career of Alcibiades and Its Influence on the Athenian Politics During his political activity, Alcibiades had managed to establish alliances with almost all Greek policies, as well as neighbouring states.
• Aspects of Developing One’s Career Developing one’s career involves a series of programs to match the requirements, abilities, and professional objectives of a person with the company’s present.
• Missy Elliott’s Career and Queer Representation in Hip-Hop The discussion of gender stereotypes and queer representations in music is especially valid in the hip-hop genre which has been subjected to racial and gender limitations.
• Tracing Raphael’s Career Development Raphael cuts the image of a master in the art arena. Starting his career in Urbino and ending it in Rome, the artist showcases exceptional talent through his artwork.
• Louis Armstrong’s Career and Innovations in Music The improvisations introduced by Armstrong into jazz altered its landscape permanently; specifically, he made the improvising soloist the epicenter of the performance.
• The Allied Health Segment: Dietetics and Physical Therapy Career This paper aims to describe two careers of interest within the allied health segment: dietetics and physical therapy.
• Registered Nurse Career: Analysis of Required Traits This paper will examine an occupation of a registered nurse and will provide a comparison of required traits with personal characteristics.
• Discussion of Career Development Stages It is the purpose of the paper to describe the five stages of Super’s theory of career development and reveal the major tasks occurring at each stage.
• Researching of Changes in Healthcare Career This work was written with the aim of analyzing my own life experience and getting answers to questions that will help in the future to analyze such situations.
• Emergency Management Role in Law Enforcement Career This essay describes how the course in emergency management and the skill learned through the practice could help the author in a career in law enforcement.
• Aspects of Career Development: Personal Branding and Networking In the virtual age, personal branding and networking are both exceptionally important for career development. This essay is going to underline the key aspects of these concepts
• Educational and Career Goals Analysis The author chose nursing both because of their affinity with the profession and because they heard that it had excellent prospects.
• Research and Career in Dental Healthcare Field The essay discusses the purposes of research in creating and disseminating new knowledge, assessing technological and scientific innovations, and educating professionals.
• Nursing Career Plan Development Being a nursing administrator needs administrative skills. A nursing administrator is concerned with enhancing communication between the management and nursing staff.
• Ursula Le Guin: Science Fiction Genre Writer Career As one of the most prolific and innovative science fiction writers, Ursula K. Le Guin has definitely left her mark on the landscape of science fiction as a genre.
• Personal Philosophy of Nursing and Its Role in Nursing Career My conviction is that nursing should readily embrace all possible dynamics to ensure that quality care is the first priority at any given time.
• Historical Analysis of Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Career Reagan’s experience as a media person helped him significantly when he became president. He spoke confidently and had a unique style that influenced the public.
• Leadership Style in Medical Career The purpose of the article is to discuss the benefits of the situational leadership approach under the realities of healthcare organizations.
• Pop-Up Restaurant Chef: Career Interest This paper presents the research into the job of a pop-up restaurant chef and the interview with a person who already works this way.
• Career Paths in Health Information: Review Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) primarily work in hospitals but can also found in other healthcare settings including office-based physician practices.
• Job Networking in Career Development Networking builds a network of business ties and forms a circle of people around you, each of whom is professional in a specific field.
• Networking and Career Development Importance Networking builds a network of business ties and forms a circle of people around you, each of whom is professional in a specific field.
• “Toward an Integrated Model of Intrinsic Motivation & Career Self-Management” by Quigley The aim of this paper is to analyze the key elements of career motivation defined by Quigley and Tymon, and analyze the effectiveness of these components.
• Business Ethics: Career Ambition vs. Company Goals Linda explored the prospects of the autonomous transportation industry. The dilemma has emerged after she was asked to provide a more comprehensive report for Crosslink Capital.
• Changing Hearts & Minds: Training Programmes for Mid-Career Workers in Singapore While undergoing learning-centered training, such workers will not only receive necessary skills they will also be able to reevaluate their attitude towards the working process.
• Globalization and Career of University of East London’s Students The UEL offers a wide range of study areas which allow the student to choose an interesting academic area where they aspire to be employed and begin a career.
• Social Work: Career of Social Worker and Job Opportunities Social work becomes inseparable from the history of humanity. This paper is an analysis of present-day social work as a career.
• William Molyneux Career and Publications William Molyneux (1654-1698) was a seventeenth-century Irish scientist, philosopher, politician and writer. He promoted and defended the ideals of science.
• Four Employees Stages in Career Development The development of employees within their professions undergoes various forms of manipulations depending on the level of experience.
• Employee Engagement and Career Stages The world market has become very competitive in terms of business and employees. As a result, the organizations tend to offer better perks to lure competent candidates.
• Possible Career Choises Planning Review Career planning entails a personal initiative pursued by an individual in order to arrive at the desired occupation of interest.
• Josquin Des Prez’s Musical Career and Works Though Josquin des Prez is famous as a contemporary musician and one of the most important Renaissance composers, details about his life and compositions are not well documented.
• Working as a Sports Agent: A Successful Career The present paper will be devoted to building a successful career in the sphere of sports management, analyze the history of sports management.
• Career Management in Business: Plan Before describing the skills required becoming a business economist, it is important to understand what a business economist does.
• Career Management Program for an Effective Sales Team This paper introduces the need and features of a career management progra, outlines the feedback mechanisms to be used, outline the handling of duo career parents.
• Career Counseling Overview: Accounting Career The essay describes the necessity and the process of the career counseling session for the group of students with common interests and skills.
• Teacher Career and Personal Philosophy of Education The personal philosophy of education of a teacher acts as a very significant aspect in his or her advance to guiding children along the course of enlightenment.
• Career Exploration Into Policing The department of the Ohio state police has immense and significant aspects that are usually put into consideration during the recruitment process of potential police officers.
• Dual-Career Couple Policy in Organizations. The organization recognizes, employs and supports dual-career couples, especially those who show commitment to the growth and success of the company.
• Registered Nurse’s Interview on Career Decision The purpose of this interview is to communicate with a registered nurse and collect information about factors that impacted her decision to become a nurse.
• Johnny Cash’s Life and Musical Career The songs of Johnny Cash are indicative of not only trends in the 1950s music industry but also of the American life, average enough for everyone.
• Law: Blowing the Whistle Without Blowing Your Career Some may argue that blowing the whistle goes against corporate conventions. Yet, on-the-job agreements are inferior to what the actual legislation says.
• Career Exploration in Engineering and Healthcare The key goal of career exploration in the field of music engineering is to gain knowledge regarding the work with various types of audio equipment.
• Career Challenges in Teaching Language An individual working in the language teaching sphere should be ready to monitor the latest alterations and use new perspectives and innovations to remain acknowledged.
• Heidi Roizen: Personal Life and Professional Career Heidi Roizen is a full-fletched venture capitalist, currently working for Apple. Initially, she worked as an operator in the Silicon Valley.
• Decision-Making in an English Teacher’s Career This is a case of a professional with 20-years of experience in teaching high school English in Japan. To analyse his decisions, this paper applies two decision-making theories.
• College Experience and Its Role in Healthcare Career This personal narrative essay considers college experience in a nursing degree that will help to achieve career goals and help people to become healthier.
• College Degree and Its Role in Nursing Career Going to college is always a brand new feeling. This work describes expectations from receiving a bachelor’s degree in the nursing area.
• Career in Clinical, Counseling, Forensic Psychology The paper indicates the further direction of educational planning and job research in the spheres of clinical, counseling, and forensic psychology.
• Psychology: Personal and Career Development Psychological studies suggest negative emotions caused by the awareness of the discrepancy between the goal and the current state are critical for encouraging self-improvement.
• Implementing Strategies of Career Development To position strategically it would need to undertake extensive research about the industry players. Getting apprenticeship would be profitable, since it would give hands-on experience.
• Interclean Company’s Career Development Plan The senior manager in the supply chain department at Interclean Company needs to hire employees to fill five positions. Before doing this, he will first carry out a job analysis.
• Generational Differences in Work and Career Growth The origin of the name ‘Generation X’ came about as a result of the high drug abuse which was common among many parents at that time.
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How to Write a Job Application Essay

Last Updated: April 9, 2024 References

This article was co-authored by Shannon O'Brien, MA, EdM and by wikiHow staff writer, Jennifer Mueller, JD . Shannon O'Brien is the Founder and Principal Advisor of Whole U. (a career and life strategy consultancy based in Boston, MA). Through advising, workshops and e-learning Whole U. empowers people to pursue their life's work and live a balanced, purposeful life. Shannon has been ranked as the #1 Career Coach and #1 Life Coach in Boston, MA by Yelp reviewers. She has been featured on Boston.com, Boldfacers, and the UR Business Network. She received a Master's of Technology, Innovation, & Education from Harvard University. There are 8 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been viewed 195,804 times.

Many employers now require a writing sample, or job application essay , to accompany all applications or résumés — even if writing is not a significant part of the position. The goal of the job application essay is to ensure that applicants have the right communication skills for the position offered. Sometimes, potential employers will provide a specific topic or series of questions for your essay to respond to. However, you may also be asked to provide an essay with no guidance whatsoever. Either way, approach the essay seriously so that it highlights the skills and assets you could bring to the company. [1] X Research source

Outlining Your Essay

• If you don't know much about the company, do a little research on it before you start writing. You might look at their website or do a general internet search with the name of the company to see if any news articles or other reports come up. Go beyond the four corners of the job listing so that you understand who will likely be reading your essay.
• If there's anything in the job listing or essay requirements that you don't understand, contact the employer and ask about them. Employers are often impressed by applicants who clarify the employer's intent rather than making assumptions.

• For example, if you're applying for a position in sales, you might want to write an essay about your ability to tailor your pitch to specific clients and close the deal. If you have the ability to be more creative, you might tailor your essay to "sell" yourself directly to the employer.

• For each of your points, think of a specific example you can relate briefly that illustrates the point. For example, if you've described yourself as a "team player," you might include an example of how you came in on your day off to complete some of the more monotonous tasks that no one else wanted to do so a project could be completed ahead of schedule.
• It's a good idea to have more than one example in your outline for each point, even if you only end up using one. That way, if you start writing something and it ends up not working as well as you thought it would, you'll have a back-up handy.
• Brainstorming can be difficult. If you find yourself churning over the same thoughts, stand up and take a break for a few minutes. Step outside or go for a walk to clear your head, then come back to it.

• For example, if you want to describe how you increased sales in a specific quarter, you would want to state specifically how much you increased sales. Your former employer may have sales figures that you could ask them for. You might also have that information in your records.
• Wherever possible, use specific numbers and dates rather than making general statements. It's okay to estimate, but make sure your estimate is conservative. Saying you led your sales team to the highest sales in a quarter is impressive — but only if it's true.

Completing Your Rough Draft

• Think of this paragraph as telling the hiring manager what you're going to tell them in the essay. Outline the points you're going to elaborate on in the essay that back up your theme or thesis statement.
• Sometimes it's best to go back and write your introduction after you've written the body of your essay. That way, you can make sure the introduction provides an outline that matches the body.

• If the employer listed specifically what should be included in your essay, follow their order, since that's what they'll be looking for when they read the essay.
• Write in the first person and make yourself the star of any anecdote you include as an example. Use action verbs to focus on what you did rather than focusing on what happened and how you reacted to it. [7] X Trustworthy Source University of North Carolina Writing Center UNC's on-campus and online instructional service that provides assistance to students, faculty, and others during the writing process Go to source

• For example, if you're writing about your skills as a team player, you might note that you discuss doing routine work that others found monotonous so they had time to work on other parts of a project. You could use that detail to move on to a section describing how you're detail-oriented.

• For example, you might write "My business school education, skills as a team player, and focus on detail make me the best candidate to lead your sales team."

Finalizing Your Essay

• For example, you might start by looking solely at punctuation, then read through again focusing on spelling.
• If you find that you tend to repeat a particular error, go through your essay looking for that error specifically.
• If your grammar isn't particularly strong or you're writing in a language other than your native language, have someone else read over your essay as well.

• If you find that you stumble over a sentence while reading aloud, that's a sign that your writing could be clearer. Work with your text until you have something that you can read aloud with ease.

• If the prospective employer did not specify a length, try to keep your essay under 2 double-spaced pages. Remember that hiring managers are busy and don't have a lot of time to read a long, rambling essay.
• Eliminate all unnecessary words or sentences that aren't relevant to the subject of your essay. The majority of your sentences should be short, declarative sentences with action verbs.
• Apps such as Hemingway ( http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ ) or Grammarly ( https://app.grammarly.com/ ) can help you identify portions of your essay that are more difficult to read. Both of these apps have a free version that you can use to edit your text.

• Working backward is particularly helpful for noticing spelling mistakes, especially hard-to-catch homophone errors, because you're seeing the word out of context.

• It may also help to print your essay in a different font or font size than what you used to type it. This breaks your brain's familiarity with the text, which can make typos and other errors more noticeable. Just remember to change the font back after you print it.

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• Give yourself plenty of time to work on your essay. Ideally, you should plan to work on it over the course of at least two days, so you have the time to set it aside after writing before you move to the editing and proofreading stage. [15] X Research source Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0

• Unless you're applying for a position in a political or religious organization, avoid including anything in your essay that identifies your political or religious preferences or beliefs. [16] X Research source Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
• Avoid using humor, especially sarcasm or ironic humor, as it can be misconstrued in text. Additionally, humor may lead the hiring manager to believe that you aren't serious about the position. [17] X Research source Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0

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• ↑ https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/writing-sample-job-application
• ↑ https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/04/30/essay-how-write-good-applications-jobs-or-grants
• ↑ Shannon O'Brien, MA, EdM. Life & Career Coach. Expert Interview. 25 May 2021.
• ↑ https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/government-job-application-essays-made-easy/
• ↑ https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/application-essays/
• ↑ https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/editing-and-proofreading/
• ↑ https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/proofreading-tips
• ↑ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/career-transitions/200906/the-dreaded-writing-sample

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Job application essays can seem scary, but they’re really just an opportunity for you to highlight your skills and explain why you’re suitable for the role. Read the job listing to find out what traits and skills the company is looking for, like time management, working under pressure, and leadership. If you don’t know much about the company, read through its website and do an online search to find articles about its work. In your introduction, you’ll want to to describe yourself and introduce the main points you’ll be making. Then, write a paragraph for each trait or skill. Use real life examples from previous jobs, your recent studies, or extracurricular activities to support your points. For example, you could highlight your leadership skills by talking about a time you led a group project that exceeded your targets. For more tips, including how to write a compelling conclusion for your job application essay, read on! Did this summary help you? Yes No

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Choosing Your College Essay Topic | Ideas & Examples

Published on October 25, 2021 by Kirsten Courault . Revised on July 3, 2023.

A strong essay topic sets you up to write a unique, memorable college application essay . Your topic should be personal, original, and specific. Take time to brainstorm the right topic for you.

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What makes a good topic, brainstorming questions to get started, discover the best topic for you, how to make a common topic compelling, frequently asked questions about college application essays, other interesting articles.

Here are some guidelines for a good essay topic:

• It’s focused on you and your experience
• It shares something different from the rest of your application
• It’s specific and original (not many students could write a similar essay)
• It affords the opportunity to share your positive stories and qualities

In most cases, avoid topics that

• Reflect poorly on your character and behavior
• Deal with a challenge or traumatic experience without a lesson learned or positive outlook

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Spend time reflecting on and writing out answers to the following questions. After doing this exercise, you should be able to identify a few strong topics for your college essay.

Writing about yourself can be difficult. If you’re struggling to identify your topic, try these two strategies.

Start with your qualities

After identifying your positive qualities or values, brainstorm stories that demonstrate these qualities.

Start with a story

If you already have some memorable stories in mind that you’d like to write about, think about which qualities and values you can demonstrate with those stories.

Talk it through

To make sure you choose the right topic, ask for advice from trusted friends or family members who know you well. They can help you brainstorm ideas and remember stories, and they can give you feedback on your potential essay topics.

You can also work with a guidance counselor, teacher, or other mentor to discuss which ideas are most promising. If you plan ahead , you can even workshop multiple draft essays to see which topic works best.

If you do choose a common topic, ensure you have the following to craft a unique essay:

• Surprising or unexpected story arcs
• Interesting insight or connections
• An advanced writing style

Here are a few examples of how to craft strong essays from cliché topics.

Here’s a checklist you can use to confirm that your college essay topic is right for you.

College essay topic checklist

My topic is focused on me, not on someone else.

My topic shares something different from the rest of my application.

My topic is specific and original (not many students could write a similar essay).

My topic reflects positively on my character and behavior.

If I chose to write about a traumatic or challenging experience, my essay will focus on how I overcame it or gained insight.

If I chose a common topic, my essay will have a surprising story arc, interesting insight, and/or an advanced writing style.

Good topic!

It looks like your topic is a good choice. It's specific, it avoids clichés, and it reflects positively on you.

There are no foolproof college essay topics —whatever your topic, the key is to write about it effectively. However, a good topic

• Is meaningful, specific, and personal to you
• Focuses on you and your experiences
• Reveals something beyond your test scores, grades, and extracurriculars
• Is creative and original

Yes—admissions officers don’t expect everyone to have a totally unique college essay topic . But you must differentiate your essay from others by having a surprising story arc, an interesting insight, and/or an advanced writing style .

To decide on a good college essay topic , spend time thoughtfully answering brainstorming questions. If you still have trouble identifying topics, try the following two strategies:

• Identify your qualities → Brainstorm stories that demonstrate these qualities
• Identify memorable stories → Connect your qualities to these stories

You can also ask family, friends, or mentors to help you brainstorm topics, give feedback on your potential essay topics, or recall key stories that showcase your qualities.

Most topics are acceptable for college essays if you can use them to demonstrate personal growth or a lesson learned. However, there are a few difficult topics for college essays that should be avoided. Avoid topics that are:

• Overly personal (e.g. graphic details of illness or injury, romantic or sexual relationships)
• Not personal enough (e.g. broad solutions to world problems, inspiring people or things)
• Too negative (e.g. an in-depth look at your flaws, put-downs of others, criticizing the need for a college essay)
• Too boring (e.g. a resume of your academic achievements and extracurriculars)
• Inappropriate for a college essay (e.g. illegal activities, offensive humor, false accounts of yourself, bragging about privilege)

Here’s a brief list of college essay topics that may be considered cliché:

• Extracurriculars, especially sports
• Role models
• Dealing with a personal tragedy or death in the family
• Struggling with new life situations (immigrant stories, moving homes, parents’ divorce)
• Becoming a better person after community service, traveling, or summer camp
• Overcoming a difficult class
• Using a common object as an extended metaphor

It’s easier to write a standout essay with a unique topic. However, it’s possible to make a common topic compelling with interesting story arcs, uncommon connections, and an advanced writing style.

If you want to know more about academic writing , effective communication , or parts of speech , make sure to check out some of our other articles with explanations and examples.

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1.  Some people prefer to work for a large company. Others prefer to work for a small company. Which would you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.  

Sample Answer

The issue whether working for a large company is better than working for a small  company is a controversial one. From my everyday experience and observation I think  that every option has its advantages and disadvantages. I base my opinion on the  following points.

From the one side working for a large company brings many benefits. First of all, one  has better medical insurance, higher salary. Often employees of a large company have  less responsibility. Moreover, they feel more secure because their company has more  clients and this means better chance to survive on the modern market. However, one  working for a large company has less chance to be promoted because one’s manager  does not want to lose his or her job unless she or he is promoted too. Also, from my  observation, managers of a large company do not pay much attention to one’s solutions  and suggestions.

From the other side working for a small company has many advantages too. Firstly, one  has better chance to be promoted. Secondly, one can talk to the owner of the company  about any improvements that can be done in order to get more profit. Another important  aspect of working for a small company is the opportunities to find out more about how  company works. As a result of this one can gain more experience and get better  recommendations. However, this also has some disadvantages. For instance, one can  get less salary, worse medical benefits, etc.

To sum up, I think that every person chooses for himself what he or she wants. If one  wants better career and more responsibilities then a small company is better choice.  Otherwise, working for a large company may be a good option too.

 (286 words)

2.  We all work or will work in our jobs with many different kinds of people. In your opinion, what are some important characteristics of a co-worker (someone you work closely with)? Use reasons and specific examples to explain why these characteristics are important.

A large number of people spend most of their time at work. Our life is divided into three  equal parts: 8 hours – sleep, 8 hours – work, 8 hours – family time. So, in the most cases,  one’s co-worker plays an important role in one’s life. From my opinion, the essential  characteristics of a co-worker are the following.

First of all, a person who works closely with me must like his job. I think it is very important for a person to feel satisfaction with his job. My husband is a software  developer. He is fond of his job and people enjoy working with him because they see  how many energy he puts into his job.

Second of all, my co-worker must be persistent and never give up. I like when people  who came across a problem try to solve it, find a good decision instead of looking for  another person to hand it over. Another important aspect of this is that a good worker  should always ask himself “What can be improved?” and suggests new solutions.

In addition, he must be a good team player. In the modern world good communication  skills and the ability to work in a team are among the common position requirements.  Personally, I think it is great to help each other, share new ideas, develop new  solutions, etc. It helps to create a team spirit and improve labor productivity.

Finally, my co-worker must be punctual. He or she should finish the job on time I think  that It is unacceptable to make the rest of a team wait while a person finishes his or her  job. Also, my “ideal co-worker” should always be ready to offer his or her help and be  supportive.

To summarize, I think if a co-worker possesses all of these qualities mentioned above  he can make work with him really enjoyable and productive.

 (314 words)

3.  What are some important qualities of a good supervisor (boss)? Use specific details and examples to explain why these qualities are important.

Many people have to work under somebody’s supervision. In most cases an employee  does not choose his or her boss, unless a supervisor is elected. In the following  paragraphs I will list the most important qualities of my “ideal boss”.

First of all, he must be impartial. I believe that it is very important to make a technical  decision, think about somebody’s promotion, etc. impartially. For instance, my friend is a  supervisor on a dairy mill. It is his family’s business so a lot of his relatives work there.  But he never promotes someone because he or she is his family. I think it is a good  quality for a boss.

Second of all, my “ideal boss” must be honest, patient and attentive. He should pay  attention to people’s feelings, encourage them by increasing their salary, listen to their  suggestions about improving labor conditions and productivity. For instance, if he does  not satisfied with the result he should understand the origin of the problem and explain  people how to fix it. In addition, he must know how to solve conflicts that can arise  between employees.

Another important quality of a boss is the ability to choose the right decisions and to  learn on somebody’s mistakes.

Finally, I think a good boss must value his or her employees because the profit directly  depends on the people who work there.

In conclusion, I think a good boss should be able to make his people enjoy the work  they are doing and encourage their diligence.

 (252 words)

4.  Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

I would have to completely disagree with the statement above. In the following  paragraphs I will outline the basic concepts of my position.

First of all, I will least the major disadvantages for employers. On the today’s market a  company must be very flexible in order to compete with other firms. So, imagine the  situation when a company can not fire its employees to stay on the market. It will lead to  loosing not only a profit, but the clients, market share and competitive ability. Now,  imagine the situation when a company is growing fast, everything is good and the next  few years are going to be excellent. So, employers need more people to extend the  production. However, nobody can tell what will happen in a few years. In this case,  employers will be afraid to hire new people and extend their business because they will  not be able to fire them if something goes wrong. Another important aspect of this is that  a company can not have the best employees. It can not hire the better one without  dismissing another employee.

What kind of disadvantages will have an employee in exchange for this kind of job  security? First of all, it will be very difficult to find a job if one is not the best, because an  employer does not want to spend money on one’s education. Besides, employer will not  have a chance to fire one if he does not do his job well. Second of all, employees with  this kind of security tend not to perfect themselves because after they are hired they can  not lose their job.

In conclusion, I would like to add that this statement has some positive aspects too such  as constancy, a strong spirit of the company, etc. This system takes place in Japan and  some companies succeeded in it. But I think that the reason of it subsists in the  Japanese traditions, the particular cultural features, habits and customs. However, on  today’s market here in the United States a company can not afford to hire employees for  their entire life.

 (349 words)

5.  Some people like to do only what they already do well. Other people prefer to try new things and take risks. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

Form my everyday experience and observation I think that all people who succeeded in  life had to work hard and gain more knowledge and experience in order to reach their  goals. From the other hand, people who all their life do things they already do well and  do not improve their knowledge do not move forward. I base my statement on the  following points.

First of all, people who want to succeed must constantly improve their knowledge and  gain more experience. Moreover, they must be the best at their profession. So, they  need to try new things, take risks sometimes and work hard.

Second of all, it is impossible to live without trying new things. Imagine one wants to  learn how to drive. He will never be able to do it without learning new things such as  driving rules.

Personally, I think that it is very interesting to learn new, to gain more experience, to  make new goals and reach them. Life is too short to stay on one place. People need  changes because they make our lives more beautiful and exiting. We find out new  things, learn new things and dream to know other things. People need challenges  because while overcoming obstacles we make new discoveries, become stronger,  perfect ourselves and move forward.

To sum up, I believe that people’s aspiration for learning new things is the main reason  the way we live now. People make many discoveries and inventions that make our lives  easier, happier and longer.

 (249 words)

6.  Companies should encourage employees who work in a high position to leave at the age of 55 in order to give opportunities to the new generation. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

I totally disagree with the idea of high-level employees leaving at the age of 55 to make  room for the upcoming generation. While it is true that the energy level and fresh ideas  of youth can rejuvenate a company, the steady hand of experience can still best guide a  company in most cases.

In English there is a saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” In the fast-paced  world of business, bolstered by even faster hi-tech innovations, a younger more pliant  mind would seem to be able to adapt with greater flexibility, while such an environment  might boggle an older more set-in-its-ways mind. Take, for example, Microsoft’s Bill  Gates, whose energy and brilliant insights as a youth helped him to pioneer new territory in the computer software world and establish a digital empire. Now as a more  mature CEO, this king of the “computer” mountain is constantly on the verge of being  knocked down by upcoming digerati entrepreneurs. However, it is now the experience  he has accumulated as an older man which keeps him on top. So, combining the vigour  and innovation of younger workers with the experience of older workers would seem to  be the winning hand in the world of business.

The assertion is to give opportunities to the younger generation. If everyone retires at  55, there will be smaller pool of experience at the company. So, who will show them the  ropes of the trade? It would be as if we lopped off the last few chapters of a textbook.  On this point the argument would seem to be built on false presumptions.

And think of all the other problems retirement at 55 would create. With life expectancy in  many advanced nations at 70-plus years, how would the state along with private  enterprises be able to support their retirement pensions? The economic repercussions  of such an idea could be great.

Besides, the Western form of capitalism is built on competition and merit and not  seniority according to age, and democracy is built on equality for all regardless of one’s  age, so the argument clearly goes against these two pillars of Western society.

Granted, my counter-arguments are perhaps as simplistic as the original assertion itself,  but without qualifying the assertion with greater supporting evidence or background  information, both sides can be argued. Nevertheless, even after thoroughly considering  the argument, I believe I would still adhere to my viewpoint that the assertion lacks merit  for the aforementioned reasons. Besides, when I am 55 I do not fancy the idea of being  put out to pasture. I think I will still be full of vitality and have a desire to work, so I hope  my workplace will view me as a treasure house of valuable experience to pass along to  the next generation and keep me on until I am at least 65 if not older.

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7.  In some countries the average worker is obliged to retire at the age of 50, while in others people can work until they are 65 or 70. Meanwhile, we see some politicians enjoying power well into their eighties. Clearly, there is little agreement on an appropriate retirement age. Until what age do you think people should be encouraged to remain in paid employment?

Mandatory retirement age varies from society to society, perhaps a reflection of economics,  population pressures or simply value systems. Indeed, retirement at 50 can probably be as  easily justified as that at 70. It is my belief, however, that the longer an able person is allowed to work, the better for both the individual worker and the employer.

Chronological age is not always a true indicator of ability. While some 65¬ year-olds may not  perform as well as they did in their past, many workers at this age do just as well or better than  they used to. People’s suitability for a position should be a reflection of their performance in the  job, rather than the number of wrinkles or grey hairs they have. Employers concerned about the  increasing age of their employees need only observe their work records. Those doing poorly  may be asked to retire, but those as yet unaffected by age should stay on. Indeed, it would  appear economical for an organisation to retain its older employees when possible rather than  spend time and money on training new workers. 

Remaining in one’s job for as long as one is able makes sense as life expectancies increase  aro und the world. As people live longer, they are longer able to contribute to society in the form  of meaningful work. But they are also in need of income for a longer period, so a mandatory  retirement age of 55 for someone who is statistically likely to live to 77 becomes increasingly  difficult to justify. At a time when populations are ageing, governments are less able to provide  for their senior citizens, so by keeping able workers in paid employment for as long as is  practicable, public expenditures are less strained.

Thus, workers who can still demonstrate their capacity to carry out their work should not be  asked to retire simply because they have reached a certain age. Societies that insist on early  retirement may do well to look again at their policies.

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8.  When should people be made to retire? 55? 65? Should there be a compulsory retirement age?  

Many old people work well into their 70s and 80s, running families, countries or  corporations. Other people, however, despite being fit and highly talented, are forced to  retire in their or even earlier because of company or national regulations. This essay will  examine whether people should be allowed to continue working for as long as they want  or whether they should be encouraged to retire at a particular stage.

There are several arguments for allowing older people to continue working as long as  they are able. First of all, older employees have an immense amount of knowledge and  experience which can be lost to a business or organization if they are made to retire. A  second point is that older employees are often extremely loyal employees and are more  willing to implement company policies than younger less committed staff. However, a  more important point is regarding the attitudes in society to old people. To force  someone to resign or retire at 60 or 65 indicates that the society does not value the  input of these people and that effectively their useful life is over.

Allowing older people to work indefinitely however is not always a good policy. Age  alone is no guarantee of ability. Many younger employees have more experience or  skills than older staff, who may have been stuck in one area or unit for most of their  working lives. Having compulsory retirement allows new ideas in an organization. In addition, without age limits, however arbitrary, many people would continue to work  purely because they did not have any other plans or roles. A third point of view is that  older people should be rewarded by society for their life’s labor by being given generous  pensions and the freedom to enjoy their leisure.

With many young people unemployed or frustrated in low-level positions, there are often  calls to compulsorily retire older workers. However, this can affect the older individual’s  freedom – and right – to work and can deprive society of valuable experience and  insights. I feel that giving workers more flexibility and choice over their retirement age  will benefit society and the individual.

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9. Many people think that nowadays people are being subjected to more and more pressure in their work, and thus are having less and less time to relax. What is your opinion?

In modern society, especially in big cities, undoubtedly hard work has become a very  important feature of ordinary people’s everyday life. It seems that many people are  under the impression that their work is becoming more pressing and urgent, and thus they sacrifice more and more leisure time.

In the first place, with the rapid development of science and technology, work today is  more demanding than it used to be. For example, college graduates nowadays have to  master English, computer science and driving skills before they can find decent jobs.  People have to spend more time acquiring new techniques and skills. And their spare  time tends to be fully occupied, not with leisure pursuit, but with work-related pursuits.

In the second place, competition is becoming more intense. Many people feel anxious that they may be “laid-off” if they can’t work as hard as others. And they also feel at a  disadvantage before new graduates. Therefore, it is understandable that people keep  themselves involved in intensely hard work in order to preserve their positions.

In my opinion, the worst aspect of this phenomenon is that the huge pressure of work  will gradually affect people’s mental health. Excessively hard work means that people  can never get rid of the fatigue of their work, even in their leisure time. This means that  they can not enjoy a normal life.

In a word, in modern society overwork is stealing our leisure time. however, I believe  this problem will be settled eventually with the development of science and technology.

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10.  People have different job expectations for jobs. Some people prefer to do the same job for the same company, whereas others prefer to change jobs frequently. Write about the advantages and disadvantages of each viewpoint?

In the modern workplace there is no longer the attitude that „a job is for life‟. Nowadays, many  people take the option to change jobs, while others prefer not to. In my essay, I will explore the  good and bad points of the above attitudes.

One of the main benefits of staying in one job is security. Changing employer often means a  period of instability, where one may have to think about moving house, or temporarily losing a  steady source of income. Staying in one job means these problems are avoided.

Another benefit of not changing occupation is that one is able to gain a lot of experience and  expertise in his specific profession, thus enhancing job security. One’s company may recognize  their loyalty and reward their service. On the other hand, those who often change jobs may be  seen as unreliable, lacking in experience and employers might be reluctant to hire and invest  training in them.

However, there are arguments in favour of changing job frequently. One is that a worker  improves his employability. Working in several different jobs often means that the individual has  more skills. Such people are seen as more dynamic and versatile.  Another benefit of changing jobs frequently is that one never gets stuck in a rut. From my own  experience, I got bored when I spent too long in a job. Following this, the quality of my work  would suffer. I also believe that employers generally don’t tend to greatly reward loyalty or  commitment. Increased wages and promotion are often easier to attain by changing jobs.

Overall, it can be said that the disadvantages of changing jobs are the advantages of staying  put, and vice versa… In my opinion, I feel that changing jobs every once in a while is of more  benefit.

 (299 words)

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Do you need to write a persuasive essay but aren’t sure what topic to focus on? Were you thrilled when your teacher said you could write about whatever you wanted but are now overwhelmed by the possibilities? We’re here to help!

Read on for a list of 113 top-notch persuasive essay topics, organized into ten categories. To help get you started, we also discuss what a persuasive essay is, how to choose a great topic, and what tips to keep in mind as you write your persuasive essay.

What Is a Persuasive Essay?

In a persuasive essay, you attempt to convince readers to agree with your point of view on an argument. For example, an essay analyzing changes in Italian art during the Renaissance wouldn’t be a persuasive essay, because there’s no argument, but an essay where you argue that Italian art reached its peak during the Renaissance would be a persuasive essay because you’re trying to get your audience to agree with your viewpoint.

Persuasive and argumentative essays both try to convince readers to agree with the author, but the two essay types have key differences. Argumentative essays show a more balanced view of the issue and discuss both sides. Persuasive essays focus more heavily on the side the author agrees with. They also often include more of the author’s opinion than argumentative essays, which tend to use only facts and data to support their argument.

All persuasive essays have the following:

• Introduction: Introduces the topic, explains why it’s important, and ends with the thesis.
• Thesis: A sentence that sums up what the essay be discussing and what your stance on the issue is.
• Reasons you believe your side of the argument: Why do you support the side you do? Typically each main point will have its own body paragraph.
• Evidence supporting your argument: Facts or examples to back up your main points. Even though your opinion is allowed in persuasive essays more than most other essays, having concrete examples will make a stronger argument than relying on your opinion alone.
• Conclusion: Restatement of thesis, summary of main points, and a recap of why the issue is important.

What Makes a Good Persuasive Essay Topic?

Theoretically, you could write a persuasive essay about any subject under the sun, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. Certain topics are easier to write a strong persuasive essay on, and below are tips to follow when deciding what you should write about.

It’s a Topic You Care About

Obviously, it’s possible to write an essay about a topic you find completely boring. You’ve probably done it! However, if possible, it’s always better to choose a topic that you care about and are interested in. When this is the case, you’ll find doing the research more enjoyable, writing the essay easier, and your writing will likely be better because you’ll be more passionate about and informed on the topic.

You Have Enough Evidence to Support Your Argument

Just being passionate about a subject isn’t enough to make it a good persuasive essay topic, though. You need to make sure your argument is complex enough to have at least two potential sides to root for, and you need to be able to back up your side with evidence and examples. Even though persuasive essays allow your opinion to feature more than many other essays, you still need concrete evidence to back up your claims, or you’ll end up with a weak essay.

For example, you may passionately believe that mint chocolate chip ice cream is the best ice cream flavor (I agree!), but could you really write an entire essay on this? What would be your reasons for believing mint chocolate chip is the best (besides the fact that it’s delicious)? How would you support your belief? Have enough studies been done on preferred ice cream flavors to support an entire essay? When choosing a persuasive essay idea, you want to find the right balance between something you care about (so you can write well on it) and something the rest of the world cares about (so you can reference evidence to strengthen your position).

It’s a Manageable Topic

Bigger isn’t always better, especially with essay topics. While it may seem like a great idea to choose a huge, complex topic to write about, you’ll likely struggle to sift through all the information and different sides of the issue and winnow them down to one streamlined essay. For example, choosing to write an essay about how WWII impacted American life more than WWI wouldn’t be a great idea because you’d need to analyze all the impacts of both the wars in numerous areas of American life. It’d be a huge undertaking. A better idea would be to choose one impact on American life the wars had (such as changes in female employment) and focus on that. Doing so will make researching and writing your persuasive essay much more feasible.

List of 113 Good Persuasive Essay Topics

Below are over 100 persuasive essay ideas, organized into ten categories. When you find an idea that piques your interest, you’ll choose one side of it to argue for in your essay. For example, if you choose the topic, “should fracking be legal?” you’d decide whether you believe fracking should be legal or illegal, then you’d write an essay arguing all the reasons why your audience should agree with you.

Arts/Culture

• Should students be required to learn an instrument in school?
• Did the end of Game of Thrones fit with the rest of the series?
• Can music be an effective way to treat mental illness?
• With e-readers so popular, have libraries become obsolete?
• Are the Harry Potter books more popular than they deserve to be?
• Should music with offensive language come with a warning label?
• What’s the best way for museums to get more people to visit?
• Should students be able to substitute an art or music class for a PE class in school?
• Are the Kardashians good or bad role models for young people?
• Should people in higher income brackets pay more taxes?
• Should all high school students be required to take a class on financial literacy?
• Is it possible to achieve the American dream, or is it only a myth?
• Is it better to spend a summer as an unpaid intern at a prestigious company or as a paid worker at a local store/restaurant?
• Should the United States impose more or fewer tariffs?
• Should college graduates have their student loans forgiven?
• Should restaurants eliminate tipping and raise staff wages instead?
• Should students learn cursive writing in school?
• Which is more important: PE class or music class?
• Is it better to have year-round school with shorter breaks throughout the year?
• Should class rank be abolished in schools?
• Should students be taught sex education in school?
• Should students be able to attend public universities for free?
• What’s the most effective way to change the behavior of school bullies?
• Are the SAT and ACT accurate ways to measure intelligence?
• Should students be able to learn sign language instead of a foreign language?
• Do the benefits of Greek life at colleges outweigh the negatives?
• Does doing homework actually help students learn more?
• Why do students in many other countries score higher than American students on math exams?
• Should parents/teachers be able to ban certain books from schools?
• What’s the best way to reduce cheating in school?
• Should colleges take a student’s race into account when making admissions decisions?
• Should there be limits to free speech?
• Should students be required to perform community service to graduate high school?
• Should convicted felons who have completed their sentence be allowed to vote?
• Should gun ownership be more tightly regulated?
• Should recycling be made mandatory?
• Should employers be required to offer paid leave to new parents?
• Are there any circumstances where torture should be allowed?
• Should children under the age of 18 be able to get plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons?
• Should white supremacy groups be allowed to hold rallies in public places?
• Does making abortion illegal make women more or less safe?
• Does foreign aid actually help developing countries?
• Are there times a person’s freedom of speech should be curtailed?
• Should people over a certain age not be allowed to adopt children?

Government/Politics

• Should the minimum voting age be raised/lowered/kept the same?
• Should Puerto Rico be granted statehood?
• Should the United States build a border wall with Mexico?
• Who should be the next person printed on American banknotes?
• Should the United States’ military budget be reduced?
• Did China’s one child policy have overall positive or negative impacts on the country?
• Should DREAMers be granted US citizenship?
• Is national security more important than individual privacy?
• What responsibility does the government have to help homeless people?
• Should the electoral college be abolished?
• Should the US increase or decrease the number of refugees it allows in each year?
• Should privately-run prisons be abolished?
• Who was the most/least effective US president?
• Will Brexit end up helping or harming the UK?

• What’s the best way to reduce the spread of Ebola?
• Is the Keto diet a safe and effective way to lose weight?
• Should the FDA regulate vitamins and supplements more strictly?
• Should public schools require all students who attend to be vaccinated?
• Is eating genetically modified food safe?
• What’s the best way to make health insurance more affordable?
• What’s the best way to lower the teen pregnancy rate?
• Should recreational marijuana be legalized nationwide?
• Should birth control pills be available without a prescription?
• Should pregnant women be forbidden from buying cigarettes and alcohol?
• Why has anxiety increased in adolescents?
• Are low-carb or low-fat diets more effective for weight loss?
• What caused the destruction of the USS Maine?
• Was King Arthur a mythical legend or actual Dark Ages king?
• Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs during WWII?
• What was the primary cause of the Rwandan genocide?
• What happened to the settlers of the Roanoke colony?
• Was disagreement over slavery the primary cause of the US Civil War?
• What has caused the numerous disappearances in the Bermuda triangle?
• Should nuclear power be banned?
• Is scientific testing on animals necessary?
• Do zoos help or harm animals?
• Should scientists be allowed to clone humans?
• Should animals in circuses be banned?
• Should fracking be legal?
• Should people be allowed to keep exotic animals as pets?
• What’s the best way to reduce illegal poaching in Africa?
• What is the best way to reduce the impact of global warming?
• Should euthanasia be legalized?
• Is there legitimate evidence of extraterrestrial life?
• Should people be banned from owning aggressive dog breeds?
• Should the United States devote more money towards space exploration?
• Should the government subsidize renewable forms of energy?
• Is solar energy worth the cost?
• Should stem cells be used in medicine?
• Is it right for the US to leave the Paris Climate Agreement?
• Should athletes who fail a drug test receive a lifetime ban from the sport?
• Should college athletes receive a salary?
• Should the NFL do more to prevent concussions in players?
• Do PE classes help students stay in shape?
• Should horse racing be banned?
• Should cheerleading be considered a sport?
• Should children younger than 18 be allowed to play tackle football?
• Are the costs of hosting an Olympic Games worth it?
• Can online schools be as effective as traditional schools?
• Do violent video games encourage players to be violent in real life?
• Should facial recognition technology be banned?
• Does excessive social media use lead to depression/anxiety?
• Has the rise of translation technology made knowing multiple languages obsolete?
• Was Steve Jobs a visionary or just a great marketer?
• Should social media be banned for children younger than a certain age?
• Which 21st-century invention has had the largest impact on society?
• Are ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft good or bad for society?
• Should Facebook have done more to protect the privacy of its users?
• Will technology end up increasing or decreasing inequality worldwide?

Tips for Writing a Strong Persuasive Essay

After you’ve chosen the perfect topic for your persuasive essay, your work isn’t over. Follow the three tips below to create a top-notch essay.

Do Your Research

Your argument will fall apart if you don’t fully understand the issue you’re discussing or you overlook an important piece of it. Readers won’t be convinced by someone who doesn’t know the subject, and you likely won’t persuade any of them to begin supporting your viewpoint. Before you begin writing a single word of your essay, research your topic thoroughly. Study different sources, learn about the different sides of the argument, ask anyone who’s an expert on the topic what their opinion is, etc. You might be tempted to start writing right away, but by doing your research, you’ll make the writing process much easier when the time comes.

Make Your Thesis Perfect

Your thesis is the most important sentence in your persuasive essay. Just by reading that single sentence, your audience should know exactly what topic you’ll be discussing and where you stand on the issue. You want your thesis to be crystal clear and to accurately set up the rest of your essay. Asking classmates or your teacher to look it over before you begin writing the rest of your essay can be a big help if you’re not entirely confident in your thesis.

Consider the Other Side

You’ll spend most of your essay focusing on your side of the argument since that’s what you want readers to come away believing. However, don’t think that means you can ignore other sides of the issue. In your essay, be sure to discuss the other side’s argument, as well as why you believe this view is weak or untrue. Researching all the different viewpoints and including them in your essay will increase the quality of your writing by making your essay more complete and nuanced.

Summary: Persuasive Essay Ideas

Good persuasive essay topics can be difficult to come up with, but in this guide we’ve created a list of 113 excellent essay topics for you to browse. The best persuasive essay ideas will be those that you are interested in, have enough evidence to support your argument, and aren’t too complicated to be summarized in an essay.

After you’ve chosen your essay topic, keep these three tips in mind when you begin writing:

• Do your research
• Make your thesis perfect
• Consider the other side

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Are you struggling to find the perfect essay topic that will not only captivate your readers but also ignite your own passion for writing?

It can be frustrating, right? 

The blank page stares back at you, and the pressure to choose an engaging essay topic feels overwhelming. You want something that's not only interesting but also meaningful—a topic that will make your essay shine.

In this comprehensive blog post, we've compiled an extensive essay topics list that covers a wide range of subjects. 

So, let's dive in!

• 1. Essay Topics for Kids
• 2. Essay Topics for Grade 3
• 3. Essay Topics for Grade 4
• 4. Essay Topics for Grade 5
• 5. Essay Topics for Grade 6
• 6. Essay Topics for Grade 7
• 7. Essay Topics for Grade 8
• 8. Essay Topics for Grade 9
• 9. Essay Topics for Grade 10
• 10. Essay Topics for Grade 11
• 11. Essay Topics for Grade 12
• 12. Essay Topics for High School Students
• 13. Best College Essay Topics
• 14. Essay Topics for University Students
• 15. Essay Topics for Different Types of Essays
• 16. Essay Topics by Subjects
• 17. General Essay Topics
• 18. Tips for Choosing the Best Topic

Essay Topics for Kids

• The Benefits of Reading Books for Fun
• The Most Exciting Adventure I've Ever Had
• What Makes a Good Friend?
• My Favorite Hobby and Why I Love It
• If I Could Visit Any Place in the World, Where Would I Go?
• The Importance of Being Kind to Others
• My Role Model and Why I Look Up to Them
• How I Would Spend a Day Without Technology
• My Favorite Season and the Activities I Enjoy During It
• The Best Day of My Life and Why It Was Special

Essay Topics for Grade 3

• My Favorite Animal
• A Day at the Amusement Park
• If I Could Fly
• My Best Friend
• My Favorite Season
• A Special Family Tradition
• If I Found a Magic Wand
• The Importance of Being Kind
• My Dream House
• A Day in the Life of a Superhero

Essay Topics for Grade 4

• My Favorite Book and Why I Love It
• The Importance of Saving Money
• If I Could Travel Back in Time
• A Day Without Electricity
• My Favorite Food and How to Prepare It
• How I Would Spend a Day on a Deserted Island
• The Benefits of Homework and Studying

Essay Topics for Grade 5

• My Dream Vacation Destination
• The Impact of Technology on My Life
• The Importance of Environmental Conservation
• My Hobbies and Why They Matter
• If I Could Change One Thing About the World
• The Role of Friendship in My Life
• A Memorable Family Trip
• The Power of Imagination
• The Benefits of Physical Exercise
• A Day in the Life of My Favorite Book Character

Essay Topics for Grade 6

Let’s explore essay topics for middle school students in grade 6 here:

• My Personal Hero and Their Influence on Me
• The Challenges of Growing Up
• The Significance of Volunteering in the Community
• The Impact of Social Media on Society
• The Value of Setting Goals
• If I Could Invent a New Holiday
• The Role of Art and Music in My Life
• The Benefits of Traveling and Experiencing Different Cultures
• A Time I Overcame a Fear
• The Importance of Time Management

Essay Topics for Grade 7

• The Role of Technology in Education
• The Impact of Bullying and How to Prevent It
• The Value of a Good Education
• The Pros and Cons of Social Networking
• The Effects of Peer Pressure
• If I Could Change One Thing About My School
• The Benefits of Learning a Second Language
• The Importance of Financial Literacy
• A Time I Faced a Difficult Decision
• The Significance of Gender Equality

Essay Topics for Grade 8

• The Influence of Role Models in Our Lives
• The Impact of Climate Change on the Environment
• The Value of Diversity and Inclusion
• The Role of Technology in Shaping the Future
• The Importance of Critical Thinking Skills
• If I Could Travel to Any Period in History
• The Ethics of Animal Testing
• The Benefits of Team Sports
• A Time I Learned a Valuable Life Lesson
• The Significance of Freedom of Speech

Essay Topics for Grade 9

• The Power of Literature to Change Lives
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Society
• The Value of Civic Engagement
• The Role of Education in Achieving Success
• The Ethics of Genetic Engineering
• If I Could Meet Any Historical Figure
• The Benefits of a Healthy Lifestyle
• The Importance of Financial Responsibility
• A Time I Overcame a Personal Challenge
• The Significance of Global Citizenship

Essay Topics for Grade 10

• The Influence of Media on Public Opinion
• The Impact of Climate Change Policies
• The Value of Ethical Leadership
• The Role of Science in Solving Global Challenges
• The Importance of Mental Health Awareness
• If I Could Change One Aspect of Society
• The Benefits of Learning a Third Language
• The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
• A Time I Faced an Ethical Dilemma
• The Significance of Cultural Exchange Programs

Essay Topics for Grade 11

• The Role of Technology in Shaping the Job Market
• The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health
• The Value of College Education in Career Development
• The Ethics of Bioengineering and Genetic Modification
• The Importance of Ethical Business Practices
• If I Could Travel to the Future
• The Benefits of Entrepreneurship
• The Significance of Political Engagement among Youth
• A Time I Challenged a Deeply Held Belief
• The Role of Art in Social Change

Essay Topics for Grade 12

• The Influence of Literature on Social Change
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment
• The Value of Critical Thinking in Decision-Making
• The Ethics of Privacy in the Digital Age
• The Importance of Environmental Sustainability
• If I Could Leave a Legacy for Future Generations
• The Benefits of Internships and Work Experience
• The Significance of Advocacy for Human Rights
• A Time I Took a Stand for a Cause
• The Role of Education in Shaping Values and Beliefs

Essay Topics for High School Students

Have a look at the following topics for high school essays to come up with your own ideas.

• Does the fashion industry need to change the way they advertise?
• Do beauty pageants carry any benefits for women?
• Should women get plastic surgery?
• What instigated World War 2?
• What do people mean when they say “Fake news?”
• Can constant use of drugs cause brain damage?
• Can gun control help in regulating crime?
• Is summer school designed to help children?
• Methods that are used by professionals to get their dream job.
• The ways to deal with on-campus violence.

Best College Essay Topics

• Role of Modern Media in contributing to eating disorders.
• Is technology turning people into zombies?
• Is censorship on the internet necessary?
• Will there be a 3rd World War?
• Should every student have the right to choose the discipline they are interested in?
• What does it take to become a politician?
• The reasons behind high unemployment rates.
• The aftermath of earthquakes.
• Which countries have the most corruption?
• Should there be a restriction on the sales and production of tobacco?

Essay Topics for University Students

• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Job Market.
• The Ethical Dilemmas of Human Gene Editing.
• The Role of Social Media in Shaping Political Movements.
• The Influence of Climate Change on Global Security.
• The Benefits and Drawbacks of Online Education.
• The Intersection of Technology and Mental Health.
• The Economic Implications of Renewable Energy Adoption.
• The Future of Space Exploration and Colonization.
• The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.
• The Cultural Significance of Contemporary Art Movements.

Essay Topics for Different Types of Essays

For writing an essay, the first step is to decide on the topic.

Here, you can find interesting topics and ideas for different types of essays to help you get started.

Controversial Argumentative Essay Topics

• Is Climate Change Primarily Caused by Human Activities?
• Should Affirmative Action Policies be Continued in College Admissions?
• Is Universal Healthcare a Viable Option for the United States?
• Should Euthanasia be Allowed for Severely Disabled Newborns?
• Is Genetic Engineering Ethical in Humans?
• Should the Voting Age be Lowered to 16?
• Is Internet Censorship Necessary to Protect National Security?
• Should Hate Speech be Protected as Free Speech?
• Does asking someone to reduce weight equate to body shaming?
• Should kids be allowed to adopt e-gaming as a progressive career?

Funny Argumentative Essay Topics

• Is pizza a proper breakfast food, and why should it be?
• Should cats be considered superior to dogs as household pets?
• Is it ethical for a sock to vanish in the laundry, and where do they go?
• Are aliens avoiding Earth because they fear our reality TV shows?
• Can you survive a zombie apocalypse using only office supplies?
• Is procrastination an art form, and how can you perfect it?
• Should kids' cartoons be considered educational for adults?
• Can you convince your boss that napping at work increases productivity?
• Is laughter truly the best medicine, and can it cure anything?
• Can you convince your roommate that washing dishes is an ancient martial art?

In need of more debatable essay topics? We have a comprehensive list of more excellent argumentative essay topics to assist you.

Persuasive Essay Topics

• Should Recycling Be Mandatory in Every Household?
• Is Single-Use Plastic a Menace to the Environment, and Should It Be Banned?
• Should Schools Implement Uniform Dress Codes to Promote Equality?
• Is Standardized Testing an Effective Measure of Student Knowledge?
• Is Online Learning as Effective as Traditional Classroom Education?
• Should Vaccinations Be Mandatory for All Children to Ensure Public Health?
• Is Animal Testing Justified in the Name of Scientific Progress?
• Should Governments Impose Higher Taxes on Junk Food and Sugary Drinks?
• Is Social Media Detrimental to Mental Health, and Should It Be Regulated?
• Should College Athletes Be Paid for Their Participation in Sports?

Read our comprehensive guide to persuasive essay topics to find a trending topic or a good idea for your paper.

Cause and Effect Essay Topics

• Causes and Effects of Stress in Modern Society
• The Consequences of Bullying on Mental Health
• Environmental Pollution: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
• The Influence of Parental Divorce on Children's Well-being
• The Causes and Effects of Obesity in Developed Countries
• The Causes and Effects of Economic Inequality
• The Causes and Consequences of Academic Procrastination
• The Impact of Social Pressure on Teenagers' Decision-Making
• The Causes and Effects of Drug Addiction
• The Influence of Early Education on a Child's Future Success

Check out this comprehensive guide on 100+ cause and effect essay topics for more ideas.

Compare and Contrast Essay Topics

• Comparison of High School vs. College Life
• Contrast of Traditional Education vs. Online Learning
• Comparison of Two Major Religions: Christianity vs. Islam
• Contrasting the Novels of Jane Austen vs. Emily Brontë
• Comparing Two Art Movements: Renaissance vs. Baroque
• Contrasting Classical Music vs. Jazz
• Comparing Two Smartphone Brands: iPhone vs. Android
• Contrast of Two Political Systems: Democracy vs. Authoritarianism
• Comparison of Traditional Medicine vs. Modern Medicine
• Comparing the Characters of Romeo and Juliet vs. West Side Story

If you need more ideas, here are some interesting compare contrast essay topics for your help.

Narrative Essay Topics

• My First Day of School: A Memorable Experience
• The Day I Overcame My Greatest Fear
• The Most Important Lesson I Learned from a Family Member
• The Time I Achieved a Personal Goal, I Never Thought Possible
• The Day I Discovered My Passion for a Hobby or Interest
• The Impact of a Life-Altering Event on My Perspective
• The Story Behind My Most Prized Possession
• My Experience as a Volunteer or in Community Service
• The Day I Realized the Power of Kindness
• A Special Bond I Share with a Childhood Friend

Need more topics? Check out this extensive blog on narrative essay topics for your next assignment.

Expository Essay Topics

• The Impact of Technology on Society: Past, Present, and Future
• The Process of Photosynthesis and Its Importance in Nature
• The History and Significance of the Industrial Revolution
• Understanding the Basics of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology
• The Role of Education in Shaping Future Career Success
• The Significance of Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World
• Exploring the Psychology of Human Behavior and Decision-Making
• The Process of How a Bill Becomes a Law in Government
• The Role of Renewable Energy Sources in Combating Climate Change
• Understanding the History and Culture of a Specific Country or Region

Here are some more intriguing expository essay topics to assist you.

Rhetorical Analysis Essay Topics

• Evaluating the Persuasive Strategies in a Self-Help Book or Article
• Examining the Rhetoric of a Famous Political Campaign Ad
• Analyzing the Persuasive Techniques in a TED Talk of Your Choice
• Analyzing the Rhetoric of a Controversial News Article
• Evaluating the Persuasive Techniques in a Super Bowl Commercial
• Examining the Rhetorical Appeals in a Famous Courtroom Speech
• Evaluating the Use of Rhetorical Devices in a Political Debate
• Analyzing the Persuasive Strategies in a Feminist Manifesto
• Evaluating the Rhetorical Appeals in a Social Justice Speech
• Examining the Rhetorical Techniques in a Historical Letter or Document

Check out this extensive blog on 100+ rhetorical analysis essay topics for more topics.

Analytical Essay Topics

• The impact of Martin Luther King's speech “I have a dream” on modern American politics
• The significance of Pablo Picasso's artwork “The Old Guitarist”
• Important characteristics of Denzel Washington Speech at the University Of Pennsylvania
• Impact of the psychoanalytic theory on modern psychology
• The impact of Romeo and Juliet on the modern concept of love
• The significance of national security strategy 2018 on great power politics
• How does the author's treatment of the subject matter in “The Catcher in the Rye” differ from that in “The Great Gatsby”?
• How are the characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird” used to illustrate different aspects of racial prejudice in America during the 1930s?
• How is the treatment of love different in Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” and “Othello”?
• How does the author use symbolism to develop the theme of good vs. evil in “The Scarlet Letter”?

Explore the blog to get some more ideas about interesting analytical essay topics .

Descriptive Essay Topics

• A Walk Through a Peaceful Forest in Autumn
• A Vibrant Farmers' Market on a Saturday Morning
• A Day at the Beach: Sun, Sand, and Waves
• The Serene Beauty of a Starry Night Sky
• A Memorable Childhood Christmas Morning
• The Sights and Sounds of a Carnival or Fair
• The First Day of Spring: Nature's Reawakening
• A Visit to a Historical Landmark or Museum
• A Gourmet Dining Experience at Your Favorite Restaurant
• The Excitement of a Music Concert or Festival

Check out this extensive list of descriptive essay topics ideas for your help.

Informative Essay Topics

• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Job Market
• The History and Cultural Significance of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics
• The Benefits and Risks of Gene Editing Technology
• Exploring Renewable Energy Sources: Solar, Wind, and Hydroelectric Power
• The Effects of Climate Change on Polar Ice Caps and Wildlife
• A Comprehensive Guide to Effective Time Management
• Exploring the Role of Nutrition in Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
• The Significance of Space Exploration: Past, Present, and Future
• The Origins and Cultural Significance of a Traditional Festival
• A Guide to Sustainable Farming and Agriculture Practices

Here’s a comprehensive list of interesting, 100+ informative essay topics .

Definition Essay Topics

• The Meaning of "Success" in Modern Society
• Defining the Concept of "Love" in All Its Forms
• The True Definition of "Friendship"
• The Ever-Changing Meaning of "Freedom"
• Exploring the Notion of "Happiness"
• Defining "Cultural Diversity" and Its Importance
• The Multifaceted Definition of "Beauty"
• The Various Interpretations of "Justice"
• Understanding "Mental Health" and Its Stigma
• Defining "Leadership" and Its Qualities
• The Meaning of "Sustainability" in Environmental Contexts
• Exploring the Concept of "Feminism"
• Defining "Social Media" and Its Impact
• The True Definition of "Equality"
• Exploring the Meaning of "Art" in Contemporary Culture

Problem Solution Essay Topics

• How to prevent social media bullying?
• How to help a depressed person?
• How texting affects face-to-face relationships?
• How to prevent injuries in sports?
• How can parents teach their children about time management?
• How to deal with manipulative and dominating people?
• How can schools and colleges be made safer?
• How to prevent deaths due to drunk driving?
• How to help families with a child with mental illness?
• How to stop violence in schools?

Personal Essay Topics

• A person you admire the most.
• Are you addicted to games?
• How did you learn to draw?
• What is your life’s goal?
• Things you hate the most?
• Why do I prefer online shopping?
• Your biggest achievement.
• What does success mean to you?
• What annoys you the most?
• Why is volunteering important?

Proposal Essay Topics

• Promoting Sustainable Transportation
• Enhancing Cybersecurity Education
• Implementing Recycling Programs in Schools
• Reducing Plastic Waste in the Community
• Supporting Small Local Businesses
• Improving Mental Health Support in Schools
• Implementing Renewable Energy Initiatives
• Enhancing Campus Sustainability Efforts
• Combating Food Insecurity in Underserved Communities
• Promoting Gender Equality in the Workplace

Evaluation Essay Topics

• Evaluate the effectiveness of online learning compared to traditional classroom education.
• Evaluate the impact of social media on interpersonal relationships and communication.
• Assess the quality and impact of a recent movie or television series.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a specific diet or nutrition plan for weight loss.
• Assess the environmental impact of electric vehicles compared to traditional gasoline-powered cars.
• Evaluate the performance and features of a popular smartphone or electronic gadget.
• Assess the impact of a particular social or political policy on society.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a marketing campaign for a well-known brand.
• Assess the impact of a recent technological advancement on daily life.
• Evaluate the quality and impact of a famous work of literature or art.

Process Analysis Essay Topics

• How to Plan and Organize a Successful Study Group.
• The Process of Making Homemade Pizza from Scratch.
• Steps to Mastering a Musical Instrument.
• How to Write a Winning College Application Essay.
• The Process of Brewing Your Own Craft Beer.
• Steps to Launching a Small Business Online.
• How to Effectively Manage Time and Prioritize Tasks.
• The Art of DIY Home Renovation.
• The Process of Creating a Stunning Piece of Art.
• How to Cook a Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner.

Check out some other process analysis essay topics for inspiration!

Illustration Essay Topics

• Illustrate the Impact of Technology on Everyday Life.
• Illustrate the Traits of a Successful Leader.
• The Role of Music in Shaping Emotions and Moods.
• Illustrate the Benefits of a Healthy Lifestyle.
• The Influence of Social Media on Personal Relationships.
• Illustrate the Impact of Cultural Diversity in a Community.
• The Importance of Effective Communication in the Workplace.
• Illustrate the Evolution of Fashion Trends Over the Decades.
• The Characteristics of a Memorable Family Vacation.
• Illustrate the Process of Achieving a Personal Goal.

Here’s a list of some more creative and engaging illustration essay topics .

Exploratory Essay Topics

• Exploring the Causes and Effects of Climate Change.
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Job Market: An Exploration.
• Exploring the Role of Media in Shaping Public Opinion.
• The Influence of Nature vs. Nurture on Human Behavior.
• An Exploration of the Ethics of Genetic Engineering.
• The Effects of Social Media on Mental Health: An In-Depth Examination.
• Exploring the Challenges and Benefits of Online Education.
• An Exploration of the Implications of Universal Basic Income.
• The Dynamics of Family Relationships: An In-Depth Analysis.
• Exploring the Impact of Literature and Art on Society.

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Classification Essay Topics

• Types of Pet Owners: A Classification.
• Classification of Musical Genres: From Classical to Hip-Hop.
• Types of Travelers: Exploring the Adventurer, Relaxer, and Culture Enthusiast.
• Classifying Different Types of Social Media Users.
• Types of Students in a Classroom: From the Overachiever to the Laid-Back.
• Classifying Different Styles of Fashion: Bohemian, Classic, and Trendy.
• Types of Moviegoers: The Action Lover, Rom-Com Fan, and Film Buff.
• Classifying Different Forms of Exercise: Yoga, Weightlifting, and Cardio.
• Types of Foodies: From Gourmet Enthusiasts to Fast Food Lovers.
• Classifying Various Types of Vehicles: Cars, Motorcycles, and Bicycles

Check out other compelling classification essay topics for more ideas.

Synthesis Essay Topics

• The Electoral College as a tool to determine the outcome of Presidential elections.
• Predicting animal adaptation by examining various evolutionary theories.
• A side-by-side analysis of the theories behind JFK's shooting
• Economic and social impacts of proposed legislation by Donald Trump
• Comparing plans to attract more visitors and create business opportunities.
• Examining crime rates in urban locations and the countryside
• Analysis of different theories on the causes of the Great Depression
• An account of the American Civil War from historical texts
• A synthesis of different theories of motivation to create behavioral change
• A unified approach to managing diabetes by examining global research from around the world
• The scientific method as a means of acquiring knowledge

Explore the blog for some more synthesis essay topics .

Essay Topics by Subjects

Students are often asked by teachers to write essays on a variety of topics related to a particular subject. 

The sheer number of discussion areas can be overwhelming for students, making it difficult to choose a good essay topic. 

This list of essay topics by subject can help you narrow down your choices and find a topic that is both interesting and relevant to your studies.

Essay Topics on Languages

• The change of language over time.
• The use of text messages has ruined the modern language: is it true?
• How to explore new languages.
• Neuro-linguistic programming and how it works.
• Physical communication or verbal communication: which is effective?
• Explore the ways in which people can communicate.
• Benefits of learning a second language.
• Explain how learning languages work.
• Is learning a new language in high school important?
• Why is English important?

Essay Topics on Social Media

• Influence of social media on youth.
• What are the cons of social media?
• Should texting and driving be illegal?
• The impact of social media on the life of teenagers.
• How does social media affect the relationship between parents and children?
• Does social media like Pinterest should be used in the classrooms?
• How to handle the problem of being bullied through social media?
• What rules should students follow when posting to social media?

Essay Topics on Technology

• Technology and the global economy.
• The positives and effects of technology.
• The role of 3-D printing  in Medicine.
• What science has to offer to disabled people?
• Face detection software and the problem of identity theft.
• Adding connectivity to our home devices: is it helpful or not?
• Cloud computing and artificial intelligence
• How has technology changed our life?
• Life without technology
• Technology has its own rules

Essay Topics on Current Affairs

• The Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lessons Learned.
• Climate Change and Its Effects on Biodiversity and Weather Patterns.
• The Role of Social Media in Shaping Modern Political Discourse.
• Cybersecurity Threats in the Digital Age and Strategies for Protection.
• The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on the Future of Work.
• The Refugee Crisis: Challenges, Solutions, and Global Responsibility.
• Racial and Social Justice Movements in the 21st Century.
• The Geopolitical Impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
• The Rise of Populism and Nationalism in Western Democracies.
• The Implications of Space Exploration and Colonization for Humanity.

Essay Topics on Corruption

• The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development
• The Relationship Between Corruption and Inequality
• The Role of the Media in Combating Corruption
• The Impact of Corruption on Political Stability
• The Relationship Between Corruption and Crime
• The Use of Technology in Combating Corruption
• International Cooperation in Combating Corruption
• The Private Sector and Combating Corruption
• Civil Society and Combating Corruption
• The Causes of Corruption

Essay Topics on Climate Change

• The effects of climate change on human health
• The impact of climate change on global food security
• The economic impacts of climate change
• The role of the media in communicating the risks of climate change
• The ethical implications of climate change
• The Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture
• The Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife
• The Potential Solutions to Climate Change
• The Challenges in Implementing Solutions to Climate Change
• The Role of the Individual in Solving Climate Change

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• The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health and Well-being.
• Social Media's Role in Shaping Political Discourse and Activism.
• The Effects of Social Media on Interpersonal Relationships.
• Cyberbullying and Online Harassment: Challenges and Solutions.
• Privacy Concerns in the Age of Social Media: Balancing Sharing and Security.
• Social Media Influencers: Their Influence and Responsibilities.
• The Use of Social Media in Education: Pros and Cons.
• Social Media Marketing: Strategies, Trends, and Ethics.
• Fake News and Misinformation on Social Media: The Role of Fact-Checking.
• The Future of Social Media: Emerging Trends and Technologies.

Essay Topics on Democracy

• The Evolution of Democracy: From Ancient Greece to Modern Times.
• The Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century.
• The Role of Media in Sustaining a Healthy Democracy.
• Democracy and Its Implications for Economic Development.
• Electoral Systems: Comparing First-Past-The-Post and Proportional Representation.
• The Influence of Money in Politics and Its Impact on Democracy.
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Employers added 303,000 jobs in March, the 39th straight month of growth. The unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent.

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Here’s what to know about the jobs report.

Another month, another burst of strong job gains. Employers added 303,000 jobs in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department reported on Friday.

It was the 39th straight month of job growth and a much larger gain than forecast. The unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, from 3.9 percent in February.

The continuing strength, labor market analysts say, may increase confidence among investors and the Federal Reserve that the U.S. economy has reached a healthy equilibrium in which a steady roll of commercial activity, growing employment and rising wages coexist.

It’s a remarkable change from a year ago, when top financial analysts were largely convinced that a recession was only months away.

From late 2021 to early 2023, inflation was outstripping wage gains, but that also now appears to have firmly shifted, even as wage increases cool from their peak rates of growth in 2022. Average hourly earnings for workers rose 0.3 percent in March from the previous month and were up 4.1 percent from March 2023.

Revisions to employment data in recent months showed a total uptick of 22,000 jobs.

Some analysts were worried about a trend in one of the two surveys that the government uses to track the labor market: out of step with most other data on job growth and layoffs, it showed weak hiring rates that, if correct, would have probably indicated an economy “already in recession,” according to the economic research team at Bank of America.

But even that worrying bit of outlier data improved in the latest report.

“The vanishingly few areas to criticize this labor market are melting away,” said Andrew Flowers, a labor economist at Appcast, a recruitment advertising firm.

Some have worried that as the booming labor market recovery transitioned into a slower expansion, job growth would mostly narrow to less cyclical sectors like government hiring and health care. Gains in health care — including hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities and outpatient services — led the way in this report, but job growth, for now, remains broad-based.

The private sector added 232,000 jobs overall. Construction added 39,000 jobs in March, about twice its average monthly gain in the past year. Employment in hospitality and leisure, which plunged during the pandemic, continues to bounce back and is now above its February 2020 levels.

The “continued vigor,” said Joe Davis, the global chief economist at Vanguard, has come from “household balance sheets bolstered by pandemic-related fiscal policy and a virtuous cycle where job growth, wages and consumption fuel one another.”

Data analysts note that better-than-expected gains in business productivity and work force participation have added fuel, too. Businesses large and small have had to navigate an obstacle course this decade: a pandemic, inflationary pressures and a steep rise in the cost of credit. But recently released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows corporate profits have reached a record high.

Officials at the Fed, which rapidly raised interest rates in 2022 and early 2023 to combat inflation, have expressed cautious optimism that they are approaching their goals of low unemployment and more stable prices.

Inflation has fallen drastically from its peak of 7.1 percent, according to the Fed’s preferred measure . But it ticked up in February to 2.5 percent, still a half-percentage point away from the Fed’s target. And some worry that rising oil prices or geopolitical chaos could upend the delicate state of affairs.

Sal Gilbertie, the chief executive at Teucrium Trading, which covers commodities markets, said he thinks that energy prices could do a “touch higher on oil if Ukraine keeps the pressure on Russia and economic numbers remain healthy.”

Joe Rennison

U.S. government bond yields, which underpin interest rates throughout the economy, are higher, with the 10-year Treasury yield up 0.07 percentage points, to 4.37 percent.

Expectations for rate cuts have also come under pressure, with investors dialing down the prospect of a rate cut in June.

The S&P 500 rose 0.5 percent in early trading. It seems investors are continuing to focus on the signs of a robust economy that could support corporate profits, rather than on stubborn inflation keeping interest rates elevated for longer.

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And while the stock index is still on course for its worst weekly performance since October, after a drop on Thursday, it remains close to its record high.

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Jeanna Smialek

“While I don’t see the economy overheating, the Fed knows how to respond if it does,” Thomas Barkin, president of the Richmond Fed, said during a speech following the jobs report. He noted that the fresh data reaffirmed that the job market is strong.

Lydia DePillis

As Jeanna noted earlier, immigration has been a strong undercurrent in the labor market over the past year. For a few months, it was starting to look as though unemployment was rising among immigrants — potentially a sign that new arrivals were having a hard time finding jobs — but it sank back down in March and now sits below the unemployment rate for native-born workers.

President Biden declared the report a “milestone,” noting that the economy has created 15 million jobs since he took office. He also noted the length of time unemployment has been below 4 percent, which is generally seen as a threshold of full employment. “We’ve come a long way, but I won’t stop fighting for hardworking families,” he said in a statement, ticking down a list of his administration’s actions to lower costs for consumers.

Economists think that the job market can sustainably add more jobs these days because immigration has been really strong, adding to the supply of available workers. But 303,000 is still quicker than most of those estimates: Brookings has suggested the sustainable level is in the ballpark of 160,000 to 200,000, and even optimistic calls like Morgan Stanley’s 265,000 are lower than the March hiring increase.

J. Edward Moreno

Despite the strong jobs data, some companies that reported earnings in recent weeks have said they are pulling back on hiring because of the high cost of labor. Paychex, a payroll software company, said its clients were struggling to find the right talent.

“Our clients tell us they still can’t find qualified employees and are not willing to hire just anyone at higher wage rates, especially in areas with recent minimum wage increases and aggressive legislative changes,” said John Bradley Gibson, chief executive of Paychex.

Indeed, as Edward mentioned, companies have been talking up their “rightsizing” measures. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence this week, “Profitability mentions may be related to cost cutting measures, as talk of layoffs (and related terms) increased by 24 percent.”

Ben Casselman

One concern about the job market lately is that hiring has been concentrated in a few sectors: leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, and government. Those accounted for two-thirds of the gains in March, but construction and retail also added a substantial number of jobs.

Hiring jumped across industries

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Thomas Simons, a U.S. economist at Jefferies who has been expecting further deceleration in the labor market, was frank in a note to clients. “The data leaves us borderline speechless,” he wrote. “We don’t want to overreact to one single data release, especially one that has the reliability issues and revision risk that this one does, but this calls our bear case for the economy into question.”

The Labor Department’s broader measure of unemployment, which includes people who are working part-time for economic reasons and want a job but aren’t actively looking, remained stable at 7.3 percent. But in one of the more concrete signs that the labor market isn’t as tight as it was a year ago, that’s substantially above where it was last March, at 6.7 percent.

The Fed has recently welcomed strong jobs gains as labor supply picks up.

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Federal Reserve officials spent much of 2022 and 2023 worried that the job market was too strong to be sustainable. Employers were racing to snap up a limited supply of workers, the logic went, leading to rapid wage gains that would eventually prod those companies to raise prices to cover their labor costs.

But instead of viewing rapid job gains as a potentially inflationary problem, the Fed has recently embraced them.

That is because strong hiring has come alongside a marked pickup in labor supply. Immigration has been much stronger than expected, and millennial men and women in particular are trickling into the labor force, enabling companies to hire without having to compete too fiercely for employees. Wage growth has been strong but not gangbusters, and inflation has cooled across a range of purchases, including those in service categories that are typically sensitive to labor costs.

Data released Friday showed that a lot of those trends persist. Hiring was very strong in March, and that wages climbed at a solid clip but continued to moderate somewhat on an annual basis. Average hourly earnings climbed by 4.1 percent last month compared to a year earlier, a tick down from 4.3 percent in February.

Overall labor force participation picked up slightly, meaning that a greater share of adults were working or looking for jobs, and employment among foreign-born workers continued to climb — a hint that immigrants may have accounted for some of the solid job increase.

The question now is how long policymakers will remain willing to tolerate such strong hiring without worrying that it will cause consumer demand, economic growth and inflation to pick back up. Job gains at the pace seen in March is faster than what most economists think is sustainable, even accounting for increasing labor supply.

But in recent speeches, central bankers have mostly signaled comfort with the vigorous labor market.

The job market is “strong but rebalancing,” Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, said in a speech this week . He noted that job openings had come down and that employers were reporting in surveys more ease in hiring.

A balanced but robust job market is good news for the Fed. If businesses are managing to find workers to hire, it means the economy can grow at a solid pace without overheating and generating a lot of inflation. And that means that the Fed can squeeze the economy a little bit with higher interest rates — something it is doing to wrestle inflation under control — without slamming on the brakes.

In fact, the recent surprising jump in worker supply is a big reason that the central bank might pull off a “soft landing,” in which it sets the labor market down gently and without causing a painful recession. Mr. Powell noted this week that immigration was a big reason that the economy blew through forecasters’ expectations for growth last year without generating inflation.

In fact, price increases cooled from 6.4 percent headed into the year to 3.3 percent at its conclusion, even as consumer spending consistently beat predictions.

“Our economy has been short labor, and probably still is,” Mr. Powell said, but immigration “explains what we’ve been asking ourselves, which is, ‘How can the economy have grown over 3 percent in a year where almost every outside economist was forecasting a recession?’”

Still, the current pace of jobs growth is strong even once rapid immigration is accounted for, which could keep Fed officials wary that the economy is still at risk of overheating if hiring continues at this pace.

Economists think that as immigration adds to the labor supply, job growth can remain strong without overheating the economy. A Brookings Institution analysis recently estimated that employers could add 160,000 to 200,000 jobs per month this year without a big risk of wages spiking and inflation rising. Without all of the immigration, that would have been more like 60,000 to 100,000.

And some Fed officials have already been questioning whether the central bank should cut rates at a time when inflation is proving stubborn and the economy looks like it might be heating back up.

Fed policymakers have been suggesting for months that they could soon cut borrowing costs, which are now set to about 5.3 percent. But as inflation has hit a sticking point after months of deceleration, investors have been steadily pushing back their expectation for when that might happen, and now expect the first move in only June or July.

Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, even suggested this week that if price increases get stuck, it may make sense to leave interest rates at the current high level all year. While Mr. Kashkari does not vote on policy in 2024, he does have a seat around the discussion table at rate-setting meetings.

“If we continue to see inflation moving sideways, then that would make me question whether we need to do those rate cuts at all,” Mr. Kashkari said during an interview with Pensions & Investments, noting that the economy has a “lot of momentum.”

The average workweek got slightly longer, and now sits at 34.4 hours, the same as it was in March of last year. At the end of 2023, the shrinking workweek had been starting to look like labor demand was weakening even as hiring remained stable.

Stocks are still up in premarket trading, though by less than before the data was released. The 10-year Treasury yield is rising as investors appeared to interpret the jobs data as a confirmation that the Fed won’t rush to cut rates.

The strength of the labor market and stubborn inflation is likely to support the Fed’s “cautious approach to monetary easing,” said Joe Gaffoglio, president of Mutual of America Capital Management.

The Black unemployment rate rose 0.8 percentage points to 6.4 percent, the highest since August 2022. The monthly numbers can bounce around, but the big jump is certainly concerning.

In a landmark, the leisure and hospitality industry returned to its employment level in February 2020, and now sits at about 16.9 million jobs.

The other big sectors powering the gains, as has been common in recent months, were health care at 72,000 jobs and government at 71,000. Construction continued its surprising strength, adding 39,000.

This is starting to look like not a slowdown. Last month’s gain is now substantially above the previous 12-month average of 231,000 jobs.

The household survey, which had been showing much weaker job gains (and even outright losses) in recent months, was much stronger in March. Nearly half a million more people were employed last month, according to that survey.

After some wild revisions in the last few months, they were relatively tame this month, adding a collective 22,000 jobs over January and February.

U.S. employers added 303,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.8 percent.

Stocks are nudging up in premarket trading as investors await the jobs data. Futures for the S&P 500 are up 0.3 percent, and up 0.4 percent for the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite.

Beyond jobs, economic data continues to look rosy.

It isn’t just the job market that has been exceeding expectations. Pretty much the whole economy keeps doing the same.

Forecasters went into last year expecting a recession. Instead, the economy gained momentum, ending the year with back-to-back quarters of unusually strong growth in gross domestic product. Revised data released last week showed that G.D.P. growth in the fourth quarter was stronger than initially reported, and that an alternative measure of economic output — which had been telling a more pessimistic story — accelerated at the end of the year.

This year has started out on a similar note. Consumer spending slumped in January but roared back in February . Income growth has been strong as well. And sectors of the economy that struggled last year amid high interest rates, like manufacturing and housing, have recently shown signs of life.

A model from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimates that overall economic output grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the first quarter — a slowdown from the end of 2023, but still a long way from a recession.

“We’re still plowing along,” said Sarah House, senior economist for Wells Fargo. “Things are hanging in, if not even looking a little bit firmer.”

There has been one important shift: Inflation, which eased steadily for most of last year, has looked more stubborn recently, rising faster on a month-to-month basis in January and February than in late 2023. That will probably lead the Federal Reserve to delay cutting interest rates until the summer, if not later, and has given new life to fears that inflation has not been fully tamed.

At the same time, there are hints that parts of the economy might be weaker than headline figures suggest. Consumers have been pulling back spending on discretionary items, and more borrowers have been falling behind on credit card payments and auto loans — signs that some Americans may be feeling the pinch of continued high prices and interest rates.

“You certainly have a portion of households that are really feeling these higher rates, and it’s affecting how much they can spend,” Ms. House said.

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Will A.I. boost workers’ productivity?

Wendy’s menu boards. Ben & Jerry’s grocery store freezers. Abercrombie & Fitch’s marketing. Many mainstays of the American customer experience are increasingly powered by artificial intelligence.

The question is whether the technology will actually make companies more efficient.

Rapid productivity improvement is the dream for both companies and economic policymakers. If output per hour holds steady, firms must either sacrifice profits or raise prices to pay for wage increases or investment projects. But when firms figure out how to produce more per working hour, it means that they can maintain or expand profits even as they pay or invest more. Economies experiencing productivity booms can experience rapid wage gains and quick growth without as much risk of rapid inflation.

But many economists and officials seem dubious that A.I. — especially generative A.I., which is still in its infancy — has spread enough to show up in productivity data already.

Immigration is helping to meet hiring demand, and may explain data mysteries.

Immigration has been robust over the past two years, creating a flood of potential workers that is both supercharging the job market and leading to surprises and quirks in closely watched economic data.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that net immigration will total about 3.3 million people this year, matching the 2023 number and far exceeding the 900,000 that was normal before the pandemic.

The jump has come as legal migration and border apprehensions surge, and while the jump in immigration is politically contentious , the resulting pop in population is also fueling strong hiring.

But because immigration flows are uncertain, estimates of that “break even” employment level vary widely. Goldman Sachs puts it at 125,000, while economists at Morgan Stanley think it could be as high as 265,000.

And immigration may help to explain a recent data mystery: a big gap between two primary employment measures.

Each month, the government releases employment figures based on two surveys. The “establishment survey,” compiling data from businesses and government agencies, is used to measure overall job gains. A second measure, drawing on surveys of households and Census Bureau population estimates, is the basis for the unemployment rate and for most demographic information.

Hiring has surged in recent months in the establishment survey even as the household survey has shown it falling. Such a huge divergence is unusual, and it has left analysts scrambling to figure out which survey is giving a reliable read.

Immigration could be behind at least some of the divide. Companies typically report hiring workers of all types, including immigrants, in real time. That explains the strong job gains in the establishment survey. Census estimates, on the other hand, are likely to pick up the recent surge in immigration only with a delay.

For the household survey, “the immigration data that feed into the estimate lag by a year and a half,” Morgan Stanley economists wrote. “In contrast, we think the payroll survey is probably closer to correct.”

How the Fed learned to stop worrying and love strong job gains.

But instead of viewing rapid job gains as a potentially inflationary problem, the Fed has learned to embrace the increase.

That is because recent strong hiring has come alongside a marked pickup in labor supply. Immigration has been much stronger than expected, and millennial men and women in particular are trickling into the labor force, enabling companies to hire without having to compete too fiercely for employees. Wage growth has been strong but not gangbusters, and inflation has cooled across a range of purchases, including those in service categories that are typically sensitive to labor costs.

In fact, the surprising jump in worker supply is a big reason that the central bank might pull off a “soft landing,” in which it sets the labor market down gently and without causing a painful recession.

Mr. Powell has greeted the development as good news. He said this week that the Fed would not rule out further supply improvements, and he noted that immigration was a big reason that the economy blew through forecasters’ expectations for growth last year without generating inflation.

Job market red flag? Despite booming employment gains, white-collar job growth slows

The U.S. economy added a booming 303,000 jobs in March, a recent report shows, filling out the portrait of a stunningly resilient labor market that keeps shrugging off high interest rates and inflation .

Yet the job market may not be as hot as it looks.

Professional and business services – a sprawling sector that includes most white-collar fields – added a meager 7,000 jobs last month and has created just 71,000 positions since June of last year. The tally was pumped up by January’s 48,000 white-collar payroll gains.

Economists have questioned the employment totals in that month because of challenges the Labor Department faces early in the year as it seasonally adjusts the raw figures from its monthly survey.

During the same eight-month period in 2022 and 2023, professional and business services added 275,000 jobs.

A downshift could be a troubling sign for the economy and labor market because professionals earn among the highest salaries and provide a big boost to consumer spending, says economist Agron Nicaj of MUFG Bank.

What industries experienced job gains?

U.S. job growth, in fact, mostly has been driven by just four large sectors since fall – government; health care; leisure and hospitality; and construction. Local governments and leisure and hospitality – which includes restaurants and bars – have been catching up to their pre-pandemic employment levels. Health care has been buoyed by aging baby boomers. And construction hiring has been propped up by a dire housing shortage and recently easing mortgage rates.

Analysts say that’s not enough to juice hiring in the months ahead.

“How long can two to four industries sustain economic activity in the United States?” Nicaj asks.

How does the jobs report affect interest rates?

There may be a silver lining to a softening job market. Reports in the past week revealing robust job growth and higher-than-anticipated inflation have led the futures market to push back forecasts for the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut from June to September. And its estimate of three rate cuts this year has been trimmed to two. If job growth lags, it could help convince the Fed to reduce rates sooner, assuming inflation continues to ease.

What job fields are declining?

Other large sectors also have turned in weak employment growth since mid-2023, or even longer in some cases, but they’ve been constrained by industry-specific factors. Financial activities have been hindered by high interest rates; the information industry, by massive tech layoffs after excessive hiring during the pandemic; and manufacturing, by a shift in consumer purchases from goods to services since the health crisis has faded and by high rates that discourage business investment.

Professional and business services, however, include 23 million workers in a wide variety of fields, including law, accounting, architectural and marketing firms; HR consulting companies; temporary staffing firms; travel agencies; and office administration services.

In other words, it pretty much reflects the U.S. economy. If the economy is chugging along nicely, so should professional services.

Why is it so hard to get a white-collar job right now?

Much of the shortfall in white-collar hiring can be traced to employment by temporary help services, which has fallen by 181,000 over the past year. Traditionally, companies cut temporary workers before laying off their own permanent staffers, so the sharp drop-off augurs poorly for future job growth, Nicaj says.

But economist Dante DeAntonio of Moody’s Analytics points out that payrolls of temporary staffing firms have been declining for two years. He says companies relied heavily on temp agencies when they couldn’t find permanent workers during the pandemic and so their payrolls have been returning to normal as labor shortages have eased.

Noting that payrolls at temporary staffing agencies have slid below pre-pandemic levels, he also suggests that worker shortages may have given temp workers the leverage to ask their companies to convert them to permanent staffers.

But, he adds, “It’s not clear whether this is enough to explain the trend.” It’s possible, he says, that the pullback in temp worker employment also signals wider layoffs ahead.

What white-collar jobs are at risk?

Temporary help isn’t the only industry within professional services that’s shedding or flatlining jobs, Nicaj notes. Over the past year, employment has been unchanged at marketing and HR consulting firms and down at business support services, such as call centers. Since July, payrolls have held steady at management consulting services.

With the course of the economy uncertain, many companies may be scaling back their outsourcing of services like HR and marketing and shifting those duties to in-house employees to save money, Nicaj says.

In the summer and early fall, professional and business services shed jobs for four straight months, a streak that normally indicates an ongoing recession, Nicaj says. That’s not currently the case, he says, because at least some of the weak hiring can be traced to labor shortages rather than feeble demand by employers. In February, the gap between job openings and hires was wider for professional services than for U.S. industries overall, he says.

 Still, he says, employer demand for office workers is softening as well.

'I'm going to be very cautious'

Adam Morris, CEO of SalesFirst Recruiting, says orders for sales reps, account managers and marketing professionals have been falling and the Portland, Oregon-based company saw sales decline last year. He attributes the drop-off to a correction after a burst of post-pandemic activity and hiring in 2021 and 2022.

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Morris says that applies to his own recruiting firm as well. He has 13 employees, down from 20 or so in 2022 because he decided not to replace those who left last year. So far this year, business has picked up a bit and he plans to expand his staff but warily.  

Saying he doesn’t think it’s ethical to hire workers only to let them go, Morris says, “I’m definitely going to hire one to two people. I’m going to be very cautious after that.”

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At a time when most teachers are feeling stressed and overwhelmed in their jobs, we asked 2,531 public K-12 teachers this open-ended question:

If there’s one thing you’d want the public to know about teachers, what would it be?

We also asked Americans what they think about teachers to compare with teachers’ perceptions of how the public views them.

Related: What’s It Like To Be a Teacher in America Today?

Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to better understand what public K-12 teachers would like Americans to know about their profession. We also wanted to learn how the public thinks about teachers.

For the open-end question, we surveyed 2,531 U.S. public K-12 teachers from Oct. 17 to Nov. 14, 2023. The teachers surveyed are members of RAND’s American Teacher Panel, a nationally representative panel of public K-12 school teachers recruited through MDR Education. Survey data is weighted to state and national teacher characteristics to account for differences in sampling and response to ensure they are representative of the target population.

Overall, 96% of surveyed teachers provided an answer to the open-ended question. Center researchers developed a coding scheme categorizing the responses, coded all responses, and then grouped them into the six themes explored in the data essay.

For the questions for the general public, we surveyed 5,029 U.S. adults from Nov. 9 to Nov. 16, 2023. The adults surveyed are members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, a nationally representative online survey panel. Panel members are randomly recruited through probability-based sampling, and households are provided with access to the Internet and hardware if needed. To ensure that the results of this survey reflect a balanced cross section of the nation, the data is weighted to match the U.S. adult population by gender, age, education, race and ethnicity and other categories.

Here are the questions used for this analysis , along with responses, the teacher survey methodology and the general public survey methodology .

Most of the responses to the open-ended question fell into one of these six themes:

Teaching is a hard job

About half of teachers (51%) said they want the public to know that teaching is a difficult job and that teachers are hardworking. Within this share, many mentioned that they have roles and responsibilities in the classroom besides teaching, which makes the job stressful. Many also talked about working long hours, beyond those they’re contracted for.

“Teachers serve multiple roles other than being responsible for teaching curriculum. We are counselors, behavioral specialists and parents for students who need us to fill those roles. We sacrifice a lot to give all of ourselves to the role as teacher.”

– Elementary school teacher

“The amount of extra hours that teachers have to put in beyond the contractual time is ridiculous. Arriving 30 minutes before and leaving an hour after is just the tip of the iceberg. … And as far as ‘having summers off,’ most of August is taken up with preparing materials for the upcoming school year or attending three, four, seven days’ worth of unpaid development training.”

– High school teacher

Teachers care about their students

The next most common theme: 22% of teachers brought up how fulfilling teaching is and how much teachers care about their students. Many gave examples of the hardships of teaching but reaffirmed that they do their job because they love the kids and helping them succeed. 

“We are passionate about what we do. Every child we teach is important to us and we look out for them like they are our own.”

– Middle school teacher

“We are in it for the kids, and the most incredible moments are when children make connections with learning.”

Teachers are undervalued and disrespected

Some 17% of teachers want the public to know that they feel undervalued and disrespected, and that they need more public support. Some mentioned that they are well-educated professionals but are not treated as such. And many teachers in this category responded with a general plea for support from the public, which they don’t feel they’re getting now.

“We feel undervalued. The public and many parents of my students treat me and my peers as if we do not know as much as they do, as if we are uneducated.”

“The public attitudes toward teachers have been degrading, and it is making it impossible for well-qualified teachers to be found. People are simply not wanting to go into the profession because of public sentiments.”

Teachers are underpaid

A similar share of teachers (15%) want the public to know that teachers are underpaid. Many teachers said their salary doesn’t account for the effort and care they put into their students’ education and believe that their pay should reflect this.

“We are sorely underpaid for the amount of hours we work and the education level we have attained.”

Teachers need support and resources from government and administrators

About one-in-ten teachers (9%) said they need more support from the government, their administrators and other key stakeholders. Many mentioned working in understaffed schools, not having enough funding and paying for supplies out of pocket. Some teachers also expressed that they have little control over the curriculum that they teach.

“The world-class education we used to be proud of does not exist because of all the red tape we are constantly navigating. If you want to see real change in the classroom, advocate for smaller class sizes for your child, push your district to cap class sizes at a reasonable level and have real, authentic conversations with your child’s teacher about what is going on in the classroom if you’re curious.”

Teachers need more support from parents

Roughly the same share of teachers (8%) want the public to know that teachers need more support from parents, emphasizing that the parent-teacher relationship is strained. Many view parents as partners in their child’s education and believe that a strong relationship improves kids’ overall social and emotional development.

“Teachers help students to reach their potential. However, that job is near impossible if parents/guardians do not take an active part in their student’s education.”

How the U.S. public views teachers

While the top response from teachers in the open-ended question is that they want the public to know that teaching is a hard job, most Americans already see it that way. Two-thirds of U.S. adults say being a public K-12 teacher is harder than most other jobs, with 33% saying it’s a lot harder.

And about three-quarters of Americans (74%) say teachers should be paid more than they are now, including 39% who say teachers should be paid a lot more.

Americans are about evenly divided on whether the public generally looks up to (32%) or down on (30%) public K-12 teachers. Some 37% say Americans neither look up to or down on public K-12 teachers.

In addition to the open-ended question about what they want the public to know about them, we asked teachers how much they think most Americans trust public K-12 teachers to do their job well. We also asked the public how much they trust teachers. Answers differ considerably.

Nearly half of public K-12 teachers (47%) say most Americans don’t trust teachers much or at all. A third say most Americans trust teachers some, and 18% say the public trusts teachers a great deal or a fair amount.

In contrast, a majority of Americans (57%) say they do trust public K-12 teachers to do their job well a great deal or a fair amount. About a quarter (26%) say they trust teachers some, and 17% say they don’t trust teachers much or at all.

Related: About half of Americans say public K-12 education is going in the wrong direction

How the public’s views differ by party

There are sizable party differences in Americans’ views of teachers. In particular, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to say:

• They trust teachers to do their job well a great deal or a fair amount (70% vs. 44%)
• Teaching is a lot or somewhat harder when compared with most other jobs (77% vs. 59%)
• Teachers should be paid a lot or somewhat more than they are now (86% vs. 63%)

In their own words

Below, we have a selection of quotes that describe what teachers want the public to know about them and their profession.

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